Fuchsia

Definitions

1. A female given name.
2. A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
3. A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.

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Examples

“Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay⟳ on the flat nasturtium leaves”

“She tilted a hand topped with long rectangular nails in furious fuchsia towards her cheeks and fluttered the fingers, fanning.”

“[…] the attic, which since the earliest days Fuchsia could remember⟳ had been for her a world undesecrate.”

“Slater quotes from a new book titled Sichuan Cookery, by Fuchsia Dunlop, the BBC's East Asia specialist.”

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