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chez_jay
Leonard Fuchs is long dead, but I’d like to think that the spinning coming from his grave powers a nearby town:
fuchsia /fūˈshə/
noun
Any plant of a S American genus (Fuchsia) of the family Onagraceae, with long pendulous flowers typically red or purple
A reddish-purple colour
adjective
Of a reddish-purple colour
ORIGIN: Named after Leonard Fuchs (1501–66), German botanist