Fuchsia
WordNet
noun
(1) A dark purple-red; the dye was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta
(2) 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
WiktionaryText
Etymology
After the genus Fuchsia, itself named after Leonhart Fuchs, German botanist.
Noun
- A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
- a purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.
Quotations
plant
- 1922 : Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves. - Katherine Mansfield, At The Bay (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 281)