fuchsia

 
Pronunciation: /ˈfjuːʃə/

noun

  • a shrub with pendulous tubular flowers that are typically of two contrasting colours. They are native to America and New Zealand and are commonly grown as ornamentals.
    • Genus Fuchsia, family Onagraceae: many cultivars
  • Australian used in names of plants of other families with flowers similar to the fuchsia, e.g. native fuchsia.
  • [mass noun] a vivid purplish-red colour like that of the sepals of a typical fuchsia flower: dresses in fuchsia and lavender

Origin:

modern Latin, named in honour of Leonhard Fuchs (1501–66), German botanist

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Remember that fuchsia has -chs- in the middle: the flower is named after the German botanist Leonhard Fuchs.

fuchsia is a colourful horticultural shrub.