fuchsia

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Any of various tropical shrubs or trees of the genus Fuchsia, widely cultivated for their showy, drooping purplish, reddish, or white flowers.
2. n. A strong, vivid purplish red.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A genus of highly ornamental shrubs and small trees, of the order Onagraceæ. There are about 50 species, natives of the mountains of Mexico and of the Andes, with 2 species in New Zealand. They have opposite leaves, a colored tubular calyx with 4-parted limb, 4 petals on the throat of the tube, and a pulpy baccate fruit. The numerous varieties which are common in cultivation, with drooping flowers and a short calyx-tube, are believed to have originated for the most part from the Chilian species, F, macrostemma. Some other species are occasionally met with in greenhouses.
2. n. A plant of the genus Fuchsia.
3. n. In Australia and Tasmania, species of the genus Mazeutoxeron, belonging to the rue family, especially M. speciosum.
4. n. In Queensland, a shrub of the family Myoporaceæ, Pholidia maculata.
5. n. In New Zealand, the kotukutuku, Fuchsia excorticata. See kotukutuku, konini, and tookytook.

Wiktionary

1. n. A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
2. n. a purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.
3. adj. Having a purplish-red colour.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (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.
2. n. A plant belonging to the genus Fuschia.

WordNet 3.0

1. 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