fuchsia
nounEtymology
From New Latin, after the genus Fuchsia, itself named after German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566).
Definitions
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
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.
Having a purplish-red colour.
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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.
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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