Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Fuchsia"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fuchsia \Fuch"si*a\, n.; pl. E. {Fuchsias}, L. {Fuchsl[ae]}.
[NL. Named after Leonard Fuchs, a German botanist.] (Bot.)
A genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers,
with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single
pistil. They are natives of Mexico and South America.
Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
fuchsia
n 1: any of various tropical shrubs widely cultivated for their
showy drooping purplish or reddish or white flowers;
Central and South America and New Zealand and Tahiti
2: a dark purple-red; the dye was discovered in 1859, the year
of the battle of Magenta [syn: {magenta}]
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