fuchsia

From New Latin, after the genus Fuchsia, itself named after German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566).

• enPR: fyū'shə, IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːʃə/
• (obsolete) enPR: fū'ksēə, IPA^(key): /ˈfuːksi.ə/^[1]

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• Rhymes: -uːʃə

fuchsia (plural fuchsias)

2. A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
   • 1922, Katherine Mansfield, At The Bay (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 281)

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

4. A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.

   Synonym: magenta

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   • 2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 258:

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

   • 2025 November 6, Ellie Muir, “In All's Fair, the girlboss archetype has never been more embarrassing”, in The Independent‎^[2], archived from the original on 16 February 2026:

     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 balayage hairdo).

fuchsia (not comparable)

1. Having a purplish-red colour.

• fuchsia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:fuchsia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• fuchsia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Leonhart Fuchs on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from English fuchsia.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɔɡ̊ɕa]

fuchsia c (singular definite fuchsiaen, plural indefinite fuchsiaer or fuchsier)

1. fuchsia

• “fuchsia” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from English fuchsia.

• IPA^(key): /fy.ʃja/, /fyk.sja/

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• Homophone: fuchsias

fuchsia m (plural fuchsias)

1. fuchsia

fuchsia (invariable)

1. fuchsia

• “fuchsia”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012