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Answer for the clue "Garden plant ", 7 letters:
fuchsia
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Word definitions for fuchsia in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fuchsia (often misspelled "Fuschia") can refer to:
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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 a dark purple-red; the dye was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ His little sister gripped a shoot of fuchsia bougainvillea and wailed. ▪ I read in a strange book with a fuchsia cover. ▪ I stand on a lawn across the street, watching the fuchsia flames licking the sky. ▪ She had spent more ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Having a purplish-red colour. n. 1 A popular garden plant, of the genus ''Fuchsia'', of the ''Onagraceae'' family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers. 2 A purplish-red color, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.
Usage examples of fuchsia.
I like: Azalea, basil, bean, corn, daffodil, fuchsia, freesia, grape, ginger, holly, hibiscus, parsley, poppy, sage, sunflower and rhododendron.
Long flowering spikes of Gladiolus, in shades of glorious purples ranging from lavender to fuchsia invited her to open her eyes just to admire their stunning beauty.
Now, getting into the middle fifties, he had settled at Porth for the sake, as he said, of the Gulf Stream and the fuchsia hedges, and pottered over his books and his theories and the local gossip.
The blue larkspur flourished beside scarlet gladioli, feather-headed spirea, and hardy fuchsia.
The matching tank top and hip-length silky jacket were printed with wearable art, a fanciful Chagall village scene in jewellike tones of coral, turquoise, fuchsia, and aquamarine.
He had put his battered leather jacket on over a fuchsia and green aloha 279 JAYNE ANN KRENTZ shirt that was covered with a mass of hibiscus flowers.
He passed a group of tourists who were arguing over where to have lunch, a pencil-slim woman in fuchsia silk leading two Afghan hounds, and a businessman who strolled along chatting on his cellular phone.
Thirty blue-white solaris spots shone down on four rows of red clay troughs which grew clumps of orchids, fuchsias, cyclamen, African violets, gloxinias, and jasmine.
Irma simply twitched but was too refined to look round, and it was left to the Doctor to make contact with Fuchsia by means of an exquisitely timed wink with his left eye behind its convex lens, like an oyster shutting and opening itself beneath a pool of water.
Sunlight is good for roses and dahlias, but it would darn well finish off my fuchsias.
Fuchsia, hearing his foot descend upon the boards of her room, turned, jug in hand, and as she did so she overflooded the bowl with a rush of water which in the lamplight made bright pools on the dark ground.
The hair color du jour was fuchsia, over violet eye shadow, which matched her violet, elbow-length lace gloves.
They drank the rest of the champagne with the salad and then sprawled on the thick carpet of her living-room floor, surrounded by books of silk samples as they discussed their racing colours, and finally decided on a vivid fuchsia pink.
Walker were resolved that nothing would make them miss seeing a particularly rare collection of fuchsias in the garden due to be visited the day after tomorrow.
Holly, fuchsia, mountain ash, and rhododendron rose up together in one seemingly continuous mass, while heather, broom, and an almost bewildering variety of smaller hedge plants, many brilliantly flowered, filled every space the larger growth left free.