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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

푸크시아

Native Script:한국어 한글

Pronunciation / Transliteration: pukeuksia

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Fuchsia/ˈfjuːʃə/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #14500 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그녀는 선명한 푸크시아 색 가방을 샀다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A plant of a genus that comprises mostly tropical shrubs, native to Central and South America and New Zealand, with drooping pendant flowers.

    "The garden was adorned with bright red and purple fuchsias hanging from the porch."
As adjective
  1. 1

    Of a vivid purplish-red color.

    "She wore a striking fuchsia dress to the summer gala."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Named after the 16th-century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs. The plant was discovered in the late 17th century by French botanist Charles Plumier in the Caribbean, and the name was Latinized and internationalized into modern European languages.

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