Fuchsia
See also: fuchsia
Translingual
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Fuchsia regia
Etymology
Named after the German botanist Leonhart Fuchs + -ia. See Fuchs.
Proper noun
Fuchsia f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Onagraceae – Because of the red, pink or purple flowers these small shrubs are popular garden plants, fuchsias.
English
Etymology
From the flower.
Proper noun
Fuchsia
- 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.
- 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
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