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noun 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
originFrom New Latin, after the genus Fuchsia, itself named after German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501โ1566).
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