fuchsia
adjEtymology From New Latin, after the genus Fuchsia, itself named after German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566).
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Having a purplish-red colour.
fuchsia
noun/ˈfjuːʃə/ · /ˈfuːksi.ə/
Etymology From New Latin, after the genus Fuchsia, itself named after German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566).
1
A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
- Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves1922, Katherine Mansfield, At The Bay (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 281)
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A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.
- She tilted a hand topped with long rectangular nails in furious fuchsia towards her cheeks and fluttered the fingers, fanning.2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 258:
- Born in the mid-2010s, the concept of the girlboss promised a utopia where women could bulldoze into workplaces, pull up a seat at male-dominated tables and become a celebrated CEO on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List by the ripe age of 23 (and do it all, of course, wearing a fuchsia blazer and a balayage hairdo).2025 November 6, Ellie Muir, “In All's Fair, the girlboss archetype has never been more embarrassing”, in The Independent, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2026:
- Derived terms
- California fuchsia, fuchsia eucalyptus, fuchsia gum, fuchsialike, fuchsia mallee, fuchsine, native fuchsia