English

Proper noun

Fuchsia

1. A female given name
   • 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

     […] the attic, which since the earliest days Fuchsia could remember had been for her a world undesecrate.

   • 2012, William Shurtleff, ‎Akiko Aoyagi, History of Yuba - The Film That Forms Atop Heated Soymilk (1587-2012)

     Slater quotes from a new book titled Sichuan Cookery, by Fuchsia Dunlop, the BBC's East Asia specialist.

Translingual

Fuchsia regia

Wikispecies

Etymology

Named after the botanist Leonhart Fuchs +‎ -ia

Proper noun

Fuchsia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Onagraceae – Because of the red, pink or purple flowers these small shrubs are popular garden plants, fuchsias.

Translations

English

Fuchsia (1)

Noun

fuchsia ‎(plural fuchsias)

1. A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
   • 1922, Katherine Mansfield, At The Bay (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 281)

     Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves

2. A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.

   web fuchsia (magenta) colour:

   fashion magenta (Hollywood cerise) colour:

Translations

Synonyms

• (colour): magenta

Adjective

fuchsia ‎(not comparable)

1. Having a purplish-red colour.

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

Danish

Etymology

Named after Leonhart Fuchs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɔgɕa]

Noun

fuchsia c (singular definite fuchsiaen, plural indefinite fuchsiaer or fuchsier)

1. fuchsia

Inflection

References

• “fuchsia” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy.ʃja/ or sometimes IPA^(key): /fyk.sja/
• Homophone: fuchsias

Noun

fuchsia m ‎(plural fuchsias)

1. fuchsia

Adjective

fuchsia m, f ‎(invariable)

1. fuchsia