adj
Meaning 1
Having a purplish-red colour.
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Usage: not-comparable
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Standard Lemma guide
fuchsia
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fyū'shə
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/ˈfjuːʃə/
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obsolete: fū'ksēə
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obsolete: /ˈfuːksi.ə/
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rhymes with -uːʃə
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name
Meaning 2
A female given name.
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noun
Meaning 3
A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
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noun
Meaning 4
A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.
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Synonyms: magenta
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noun
Meaning 5
any of various tropical shrubs widely cultivated for their showy drooping purplish or reddish or white flowers; Central and South America and New Zealand and Tahiti
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: shrub, bush
Narrower terms: lady's-eardrop, ladies'-eardrop, lady's-eardrops, ladies'-eardrops, Fuchsia coccinea, konini, tree fuchsia, native fuchsia, Fuchsia excorticata
History
Etymology
From New Latin, after the genus Fuchsia, itself named after German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566).
From the flower fuchsia.
Across languages
Translations
83 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: lule vathi — plant
- Armenian: ֆուքսիա (fukʻsia) — plant
- Armenian: ականջօղ (akanǰōġ) — plant
- Armenian: աղվեսակ (aġvesak) — plant
- Bulgarian: о́бички (óbički) — plant
- Catalan: fúcsia — plant
- Chinese Mandarin: 倒掛金鐘 /倒挂金钟 (dàoguàjīnzhōng) — plant
- Czech: fuchsie — plant
- Danish: fuchsia — plant
- Esperanto: fuksio — plant
- Finnish: verenpisara — plant
- Finnish: fuksia — plant
- French: fuchsia — plant
- Galician: fucsia — plant
- Georgian: ფუქსია (puksia) — plant
- German: Fuchsie — plant
- Greek: φούξια (foúxia) — plant
- Hebrew: פוּקְסְיָה (fúksya) — plant
- Ido: fuxio — plant
- Italian: fucsia — plant
- Japanese: フクシャ (fukusha) — plant
- Japanese: ホクシャ (hokusha) — plant
- Māori: kōtukutuku — plant
- Mapudungun: chillko — plant
- Norwegian Bokmål: fuksia — plant
- Norwegian Nynorsk: fuksia — plant
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tåre — plant
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kristi blodsdrope — plant
- Persian: فوشیا (fušiyâ) — plant
- Persian: گل آویز (gol-e âviz) — plant
- Persian: فوکسیه (fuksiye) — plant
- Polish: fuksja — plant
- Polish: ułanka — plant
- Portuguese: fúcsia — plant
- Romanian: cerceluș — plant
- Romanian: fucsie — plant
- Russian: фу́ксия (fúksija) — plant
- Serbo-Croatian: фу̀ксија — plant
- Serbo-Croatian: fùksija — plant
- Slovak: fuksia — plant
- Spanish: fucsia — plant
- Spanish: cinzolín — plant
- Swedish: fuchsia — plant
- Tajik: нофамон (nofamon) — plant
- Tatar: алкагөл (alqägöl) — plant
- Tatar: alqagöl — plant
- Turkish: küpe çiçeği — plant
- Ukrainian: фу́ксія (fúksija) — plant
- Afrikaans: foksia — colour
- Arabic: أُرْجُوَانِيّ (ʔurjuwāniyy) — colour
- Basque: fuksiara — colour
- Bengali: ম্যাজেন্টা (mêjenṭa) — colour
- Catalan: fúcsia — colour
- Chinese Mandarin: 紫紅色 /紫红色 (zǐhóngsè) — colour
- Chinese Mandarin: 品紅色 /品红色 (pǐnhóngsè) — colour
- Dutch: foksia — colour
- Finnish: fuksianpunainen — colour
- Finnish: fuksia — colour
- French: fuchsia — colour
- Galician: fucsia — colour
- Greek: φούξια (foúxia) — colour
- Hebrew: פוקסיה (fúksya) — colour
- Italian: fucsia — colour
- Japanese: 赤紫色 (aka-murasaki-iro) — colour
- Kazakh: фуксии (fuksii) — colour
- Northern Kurdish: foşya — colour
- Malayalam: ഫ്യൂഷിയ (phyūṣiya) — colour
- Māori: kōtukutuku — colour
- Norwegian Bokmål: fuksia — colour
- Occitan: fúcsia — colour
- Persian: سرخابی سیر (sorxâbi sir) — colour
- Polish: fuksja — colour
- Portuguese: fúcsia — colour
- Romanian: fucsie — colour
- Russian: фу́ксия (fúksija) — colour
- Russian: пурпу́рно-кра́сный цвет (purpúrno-krásnyj cvet) — colour
- Slovak: fuksia — colour
- Sotho: monjet — colour
- Spanish: fucsia — colour
- Swedish: fuchsia — colour
- Tagalog: pusiya — colour
- Tajik: фуксия (fuksiya) — colour
- Turkish: fuşya — colour