fuchsia

noun
/ˈfjuːʃə/

Etymology

From New Latin, after the genus Fuchsia, itself named after German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566).

Definitions

  1. A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red,…

    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
  2. 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.
  3. Having a purplish-red colour.

  4. + 1 more definition
    1. 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fuchsia. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at fuchsia. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at fuchsia

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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