dictionary help| fuchsia | medical dictionary |
Origin: NL. Named after Leonard Fuchs, a German botanist.
<botany> 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.
(01 Mar 1998)
Fuchs' epithelial dystrophy, Fuchs, Ernst, Fuchs' heterochromic cyclitis < Prev | Next > fuchsin, fuchsin agar, fuchsin bodies
Bookmark with:      | word visualiser | Go and visit our forums  |
