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FUCHSIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fuchsia" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fuchsia"):
Fuchsia coccinea; ladies'-eardrop; ladies'-eardrops; lady's-eardrop; lady's-eardrops (erect or climbing shrub of Brazil with deep pink to red flowers)
Fuchsia excorticata; konini; native fuchsia; tree fuchsia (erect deciduous shrub or tree to 10 feet with maroon flowers; New Zealand)
Holonyms ("fuchsia" is a member of...):
genus Fuchsia (large genus of decorative tropical shrubs with pendulous tetramerous flowers)
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