| california fuchsia | (n) shrublet of southwestern United States to Mexico having brilliant scarlet flowers, Syn. Zauschneria californica, Epilobium canum canum, humming bird's trumpet |
| fuchs | (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 |
| fuchsia | (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 |
| genus fuchsia | (n) large genus of decorative tropical shrubs with pendulous tetramerous flowers |
| common spotted orchid | (n) European orchid having lanceolate leaves spotted purple and pink to white or mauve flowers spotted or lined deep red or purple, Syn. Dactylorhiza maculata fuchsii, Dactylorhiza fuchsii |
| konini | (n) erect deciduous shrub or tree to 10 feet with maroon flowers; New Zealand, Syn. Fuchsia excorticata, native fuchsia, tree fuchsia |
| lady's-eardrop | (n) erect or climbing shrub of Brazil with deep pink to red flowers, Syn. Fuchsia coccinea, ladies'-eardrop, ladies'-eardrops, lady's-eardrops |
| Fuchs | ‖n. [ G., prop., a fox. ] (German Univ.) A student of the first year. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Fuchsia | 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 ] |
| Fuchsine | 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 ] |
