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2 definitions found 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 1.6 [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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