OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 1963

fuchsia

/ˈfjuːʃə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cinzolín • fucsia
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 leaves
fucsia
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.
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