Fuchsia
See also: fuchsia
Translingual
Etymology
Named after the German botanist Leonhart Fuchs + -ia. See Fuchs.
Proper noun
Fuchsia f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Onagraceae – Because of the red, pink or purple flowers these small shrubs are popular garden plants, fuchsias.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, malvids – clades; Myrtales – order; Onagraceae – family; Onagroideae – subfamily; Circaeeae – tribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Fuchsia. sect. Ellobium, Fuchsia. sect. Encliandra, Fuchsia. sect. Fuchsia, Fuchsia. sect. Hemsleyella, Fuchsia. sect. Jimenezia, Fuchsia. sect. Pachyrrhiza, Fuchsia. sect. Procumbentes, Fuchsia. sect. Quelusia, Fuchsia. sect. Schufia, Fuchsia. sect. Skinnera, Fuchsia. sect. Verrucosa – sections
- Fuchsia triphylla (honeysuckle fuchsia) – type species
References
- Fuchsia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Fuchsia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Fuchsia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
English
Etymology
From the flower fuchsia.
Proper noun
Fuchsia
- A female given name.
- 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
- […] the attic, which since the earliest days Fuchsia could remember had been for her a world undesecrate.
- 2012, William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, History of Yuba - The Film That Forms Atop Heated Soymilk (1587-2012):
- Slater quotes from a new book titled Sichuan Cookery, by Fuchsia Dunlop, the BBC's East Asia specialist.