(n) British physicist who was born in Germany and fled Nazi persecution; in the 1940s he passed secret information to the USSR about the development of the atom bomb in the United States (1911-1988), Syn.Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs, Klaus Fuchs
(n) 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
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
n.; pl. E. Fuchsias L. Fuchsiæ [ NL. Named after Leonard Fuchs, a German botanist. ] 1. (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. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. A plant belonging to the genus Fuschia. [ PJC ]
n. [ Named by the French inventor, from Fuchs a fox, the German equivalent of his own name, Renard. ] (Chem.) Aniline red; an artificial coal-tar dyestuff, of a metallic green color superficially, resembling cantharides, but when dissolved forming a brilliant dark red. It consists of a hydrochloride or acetate of rosaniline. See Rosaniline. [ 1913 Webster ]
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