fuchsia vs red

fuchsia

adj
  • Having a purplish-red colour. 

noun
  • A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye. 

  • A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers. 

red

adj
  • Having red as its color. 

  • Having a color charge of red. 

  • Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”) 

  • Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations 

  • Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation. 

  • the red-black grand coalition in Germany 

  • With a red hue due to embarrassment or sunburn. 

  • Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger. 

  • The U.S. Republican Party. 

  • Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany. 

noun
  • Tomato ketchup. 

  • Red wine. 

  • A red light (a traffic signal) 

  • The redfish or red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, a fish with reddish fins and scales. 

  • A red kangaroo. 

  • An American Indian. 

  • A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. 

  • One of the three color charges for quarks. 

  • One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours. 

  • Any of several varieties of ale which are brewed with red or kilned malt, giving the beer a red colour. 

  • Red lemonade 

  • Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from white light using magenta and yellow filters; the colour of blood, ripe strawberries, etc. 

  • A redshank. 

  • Chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red"). 

  • The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug. 

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