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Reddish-purple shade
Answer for the clue "Reddish-purple shade ", 7 letters:
fuchsia
Alternative clues for the word fuchsia
- Drooping flower
- Plant rejected a kind of strike after one fellow sacked
- Shrub with purplish-red flowers
- Dark reddish-purple
- Any of various tropical shrubs widely cultivated for their showy drooping purplish or reddish or white flowers
- Purplish-red flower
- Plant recreated such an interior for timeless Italian car
Word definitions for fuchsia in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
red color (like that of the Fuchsia flowers), 1921, from the ornamental shrub (1703, Plumier; by 1753 in English), from the Latinized name of German botanist Leonhard Fuchs (1501-1566) + abstract noun ending -ia . The German surname is literally "fox." ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fuchsia is a genus of flowering plants that consists mostly of shrubs or small trees. The first, Fuchsia triphylla , was discovered on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola ( Haiti and the Dominican Republic ) about 1696–1697 by the French Minim monk and botanist, ...
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.