noun / adjective
fuchsia
FYOO-shuh/ˈfjuːʃə/
A flowering shrub with vivid hanging blossoms.
A fuchsia hangs its vivid blossoms over the rim of the pot.
Etymology
Fuchs’s surname, combined with -ia, named a flowering shrub in his honor. The vivid purplish-red color then took its name from the shrub’s flowers.
In context
how to make fuchsia the first thing you're gonna do is get equal amounts of red and blue and that is going to make purple so fuchsia is a mixture of purple and pink
More examples
- The fuchsia has pink and purple flowers that hang from its branches.
- We water our fuchsias every morning during hot weather.
- A hummingbird visits the fuchsia outside my window.
Forms
fuchsia · fuchsias