fuchsia
/ˈfjuːʃə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.69 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
noun
A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.
adj
name
A female given name.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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)."
- "[…] 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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *púḱsos Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz Proto-West Germanic *fuhs Old High German vuhs Middle High German vuhs German Fuchsder. Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -iader. Translingual Fuchsiabor. English fuchsia From New Latin, after the genus Fuchsia, itself named after German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566).
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