fuchsia

plural fuchsias

1. 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

   1922, Katherine Mansfield, At The Bay (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 281)

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.

   2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 258

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   Born in the mid-2010s, the concept of the girlboss promised a utopia where women could bulldoze into workplaces, pull up a seat at male-dominated tables and become a celebrated CEO on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List by the ripe age of 23 (and do it all, of course, wearing a fuchsia blazer and a balayage hairdo).

   2025 November 6, Ellie Muir, “In All's Fair, the girlboss archetype has never been more embarrassing”, in The Independent, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2026

   Synonyms: magenta

1. not comparableHaving a purplish-red colour.

1. A female given name.

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

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

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

   1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC