Fuchsia

See also: fuchsia

Translingual

Fuchsia regia

Wikispecies

Etymology

Named after the German botanist Leonhart Fuchs +‎ -ia. See Fuchs.

Proper noun

Fuchsia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Onagraceae – Because of the red, pink or purple flowers these small shrubs are popular garden plants, fuchsias.

English

Etymology

From the flower fuchsia.

Proper noun

Fuchsia

1. A female given name
   • 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:

     […] the attic, which since the earliest days Fuchsia could remember had been for her a world undesecrate.

   • 2012, William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, History of Yuba - The Film That Forms Atop Heated Soymilk (1587-2012):

     Slater quotes from a new book titled Sichuan Cookery, by Fuchsia Dunlop, the BBC's East Asia specialist.