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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The kotukutuku, Fuchsia excorticata. See kotukutuku.

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Examples

  • One day the father sat in the garden by the mighty fuchsia-tree that grows on the lawn, watching his little fair-haired son play at marbles on the path with two big lads whom he had enticed out of the road, and another more familiar playmate -- the little barefooted boy Peter, from the cottage by the water-trough.

    The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Hall Caine 1892

  • When I wake in the morning, the fuchsia-tree outside my window is such a glorious mass of colour that it distracts my eyes from the unwashed glass.

    Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • At the right of the doorstep a superb fuchsia-tree stood, and I asked the man to pluck me one of the jewel blossoms.

    Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888

  • Now it was in the waning of the year, when the great fuchsia-tree covering the front of Braeside Cottage had dropped all its dark-red bells, and when the rowan-trees along the road were yellowing, though masses of the scarlet berries still remained to delight the eye, that the news of the breaking of the City of Glasgow Bank came to these parts.

    The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols William Black 1869

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