fuch|sia

fuch|sia
fuch|sia «FYOO shuh», noun.
1. any one of various ornamental shrubs or trees with handsome, pink, white, red, or purple flowers that droop from the stems. Fuchsias belong to the evening-primrose family.
2. a purplish red like that of the flower.
3. a related perennial plant having large scarlet flowers; California fuchsia.
–adj.
purplish-red.
[< New Latin Fuchsia the genus name < Leonhard Fuchs, 1501-1566, a German botanist]

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