fuchsia
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7.4
- noun
- /ˈfjuːʃə/
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fucsia
- Correa Mannii is an Australian fuchsia that has adorned gardens there and in California for many years.
- fuchsia blooms
Examples
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It's generally easy to direct the hummer to your choice of fuchsia by covering and tying most of the other blossoms out of view, away from the bird's access.
Academic text (1999) -
Bits of fuchsia bloomed.
Fiction book (1993) -
Her fingers were as red as the fuchsia that grew on the cliffs.
Fiction book (1993) -
Suddenly, Donald said, "Denise is fuchsia."
Fiction book (1993) -
Whenever you observe hummingbirds feeding on a fuchsia or on any of your plants, note the time of day.
Academic text (1999) -
I stood there and watched her until she disappeared around the curve, stopping once and bending to a fuchsia cholla bloom.
Fiction book (1993) -
The first day of the rain, Aunt May asked Jada to bring out her white satin sheets and her fuchsia bed jacket, and to wash her hair.
Fiction book (1993) -
ARS technician Leona Horst loads a fuchsia leaf sample into the variable-pressure scanning electron microscope.
Academic text (2000) -
Occasionally, he waved it in the air to point out something interesting: a spray of tiny white orchids, a parasitic plant with a bright orange flower, and a bright red fuchsia that's pollinated by a hummingbird whose bill is longer than its body.
Blog text (30) -
The garden was filled with beautiful fuchsia flowers that attracted many butterflies.
Synonyms
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8.1
A small bush with bright hanging flowers often grown in gardens
Compounds
A small shrub with bright red, tube-shaped flowers that attract hummingbirds
- Specialized
A small tree or shrub from New Zealand with dark red flowers and rough peeling bark
- New Zealand
A shrub or small tree from New Zealand with dark red flowers that grows up to 10 feet tall
How Ornamental
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fuchsia is named after the German botanist Leonhart Fuchs, whose surname means 'fox' in German. The plant has showy, hanging flowers, so fuchsia came to mean the tropical shrub with bright, dangling blooms.