[mod.L. f. the name of the German botanist Leonhard Fuchs (16th c.).] A genus of ornamental shrubs (N. O. Onagraceæ) with drooping flowers; a plant of this genus.
1753. in Chambers, Cycl. Supp.
1789. Curtis’ Bot. Mag., III. 97. Fuchsia coccinea … Scarlet Fuchsia … was introduced to the royal gardens at Kew in the year 1788.
1837–9. Hallam, Hist. Lit., I. ix. I. § 20. 471. Leonard Fuchs … has secured a verdant immortality in the well-known Fuchsia.
1861. Whyte Melville, Good for Nothing, II. 169. The pendant fuchsias drooped in their last loveliness.
1868. Less. Mid. Age, 316. Pretty bow-windows, with the crimson fuchsias climbing up them.
b. (See quots.)
1866. Treas. Bot., Fuchsia, Australian or native. A colonial name for Correa.
1880. L. A. Meredith, Tasm. Friends & Foes, iii. 23, note. Correa speciosa—native fuchsia of Colonies.
c. attrib., as fuchsia-red, -tree.
1873. Black, Pr. Thule, iv. 47. The girl rose suddenly, and turned to a fuchsia-tree, pretending to pick some of its flowers.
1895. Daily News, 16 Jan., 7/4. Bright fuchsia-red has become … a favourite.
