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fuchsia

UK/ˈfjuːʃə/US/ˈfjuːʃə/
adjectiveC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,890 of 15,258neutral

Fuchsia is a bright bold pink-purple. A fuchsia dress, fuchsia pink, painted fuchsia.

The colour is named after the flower and the flower after a botanist called Fuchs, which is why the spelling has that impossible chs in the middle and is misspelled more often than almost any other colour word. It is close to magenta.

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Definitions of fuchsia

  1. 1adjectivefuchsiaA bright bold pink-purple.C1

    “She wore a fuchsia dress that stood out in the crowd.”

fuchsia is a colour.

Where it comes from

Named after the plant genus Fuchsia, itself named for the German botanist Leonhart Fuchs.

From New Latin -, after the genus Fuchsia, itself named after Leonhart Fuchs.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Colours & Patterns

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fuchsia in the wild

  • The web color magenta is sometimes also called fuchsia.

    Magenta

  • The first recorded use of fuchsia as a color name in English was in 1892.

    Fuchsia (color)

  • The family includes a number of popular garden plants, including evening primroses (Oenothera) and fuchsias (Fuchsia).

    Onagraceae

  • Phygelius, common names Cape fuchsia or Cape figwort, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Scrophulariaceae, native to wet slopes and banks in southern Africa.

    Phygelius

  • The vague similarity of the blooms to fuchsias has led to the common name Cape fuchsia, though they are not closely related.

    Phygelius

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.