FUCHSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fuchsia mean? 

• FUCHSIA (noun)
  The noun FUCHSIA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: FUCHSIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUCHSIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("fuchsia" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fuchsia"):

Fuchsia coccinea; ladies'-eardrop; ladies'-eardrops; lady's-eardrop; lady's-eardrops (erect or climbing shrub of Brazil with deep pink to red flowers)

Fuchsia excorticata; konini; native fuchsia; tree fuchsia (erect deciduous shrub or tree to 10 feet with maroon flowers; New Zealand)

Holonyms ("fuchsia" is a member of...):

genus Fuchsia (large genus of decorative tropical shrubs with pendulous tetramerous flowers)