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発音

• enPR: fyū'shə, IPA: /ˈfjuːʃə/
• (obsolete) enPR: fū'ksēə, IPA: /ˈfuːksi.ə/
• 韻: -uːʃə

名詞

fuchsia (plural fuchsias)

1. A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
   • 1922, Katherine Mansfield, At The Bay (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 281)

     Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves

2. A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.

   Synonym: magenta

   fuchsia:  

   web fuchsia (magenta):  

   • 2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 258:

     She tilted a hand topped with long rectangular nails in furious fuchsia towards her cheeks and fluttered the fingers, fanning.

   • 2025 November 6, Ellie Muir, “In All's Fair, the girlboss archetype has never been more embarrassing”, in The Independent‎, archived from the original on 16 February 2026:

     Born in the mid-2010s, the concept of the girlboss promised a utopia where women could bulldoze into workplaces, pull up a seat at male-dominated tables and become a celebrated CEO on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List by the ripe age of 23 (and do it all, of course, wearing a fuchsia blazer and a balayage hairdo).

派生語

形容詞

fuchsia (not comparable)

1. Having a purplish-red colour.

参考

参照

Further reading

• fuchsia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:fuchsia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• fuchsia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Leonhart Fuchs on Wikipedia.Wikipedia