fuchsia

1. 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

   Broadershrub

   Narrowerlady's-eardropkonini

   Part ofgenus Fuchsia

Other forms of fuchsia

plural

fuchsias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fuchsia

What does fuchsia mean?

fuchsia means "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".

How many syllables are in fuchsia?

fuchsia has 3 syllables: fuch-si-a. The stress falls on "fuch".

Is fuchsia a common word?

fuchsia is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.