fuchsia

/ˈfjuːʃə/

noun 2adj 1name 1

Collocations

ADJ.

earliest, furious, pink, purple, red

VERB + FUCHSIA

climbed, colors, colour, leaves, like, nails, tell, treasured

FUCHSIA + NOUN

bbc's, cheeks, dunlop

PREP.

after, from, in, towards

noun

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

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.

adj

Having a purplish-red colour.

name

A female given name.

[…] 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.

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

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

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

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

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The colour fuchsia is named after a flower.

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I can't tell pink from fuchsia.

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