fuchsia

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Any of various tropical shrubs or trees of the genus Fuchsia, widely cultivated for their showy, drooping, purplish, reddish, or white flowers.
• noun A strong, vivid purplish red.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A genus of highly ornamental shrubs and small trees, of the order Onagraceæ.
• noun A plant of the genus Fuchsia.
• noun In Australia and Tasmania, species of the genus Mazeutoxeron, belonging to the rue family, especially M. speciosum.
• noun In Queensland, a shrub of the family Myoporaceæ, Pholidia maculata.
• noun In New Zealand, the kotukutuku, Fuchsia excorticata. See kotukutuku, konini, and tookytook.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Bot.) A genus of flowering plants having elegant drooping flowers, with four sepals, four petals, eight stamens, and a single pistil. They are natives of Mexico and South America. Double-flowered varieties are now common in cultivation.
• noun A plant belonging to the genus Fuschia.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
• noun a purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.
• adjective Having a purplish-red colour.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• 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