fuchsia
/ˈfjuːʃə/
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obsolete/ˈfuːksi.ə/
fuchsia noun: a popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
Noun
fuchsia (plural fuchsias)
- 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)
- 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...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
- Synonyms:
- magenta
Adjective
fuchsia (not comparable)
Proper noun capitalized: Fuchsia
Fuchsia
- A female given name.
- […] the attic, which since the earliest days Fuchsia could remember had been for her a world undesecrate.1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC
- Slater quotes from a new book titled Sichuan Cookery, by Fuchsia Dunlop, the BBC's East Asia specialist.2012, William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, History of Yuba - The Film That Forms Atop Heated Soymilk (1587-2012)
fuchsia meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Tagalog
fuchsia in Tamil
- நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், தாவரங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்
fuchsia in Bengali
- colour
- ম্যাজেন্টা mêjenṭa
fuchsia in Malayalam
- colour
- ഫ്യൂഷിയ phyūṣiya
fuchsia in Tagalog
- colour
- pusiya
More languagesFewer languages
- fuchsia in Arabic
- فُوشِيَة fūšiya, أُرْجُوَانِيّ ʔurjuwāniyy, فُوشِيّ fūšiyy
- fuchsia in Persian
- فوشیا fušiyâ, گل آویز gol-e âviz, فوکسیه fuksiye, سرخابی سیر sorxâbi sir
Examples of fuchsia in a sentence
- Her eyes lingered on a putrid floral number in fuchsia, hot pink, and turquoise.
- Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves.
- A fuchsia ruffle-trim dress and a pair of blue platform heels – but Dua Lipa reckons it’s ‘just girly things’.
Synonyms of fuchsia
Forms of fuchsia
| plural | fuchsias |
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Origin of fuchsia
From New Latin, after the genus Fuchsia, itself named after German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566).
English Fuchsia From the flower fuchsia.
Words formed from fuchsia
Phrases with fuchsia
Words that rhyme with fuchsia
Questions about fuchsia
- What does fuchsia mean?
- Fuchsia means a popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
- What is fuchsia in Tamil?
- Fuchsia in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், தாவரங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Fuchsia meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is fuchsia?
- Fuchsia can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce fuchsia?
- Fuchsia is pronounced /ˈfjuːʃə/.
- What is the plural of fuchsia?
- The plural of fuchsia is fuchsias.
Words near fuchsia in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: fuchsia (page history and authors); Fuchsia (page history and authors); fuchsia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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