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fucated | fuchs | fuchsia | fuchsia coccinea | fuchsia excorticata | fuchsine | fucivorous | fucoid | fucoid algae | fucoidal | fucus

fuchsine

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fuch=sine

CIDE DICTIONARY

fuchsinen. [Named by the French inventor, from Fuchs a fox, the German equivalent of his own name, Renard.].
     Aniline red; an artificial coal-tar dyestuff, of a metallic green color superficially, resembling cantharides, but when dissolved forming a brilliant dark red. It consists of a hydrochloride or acetate of rosaniline. See Rosaniline.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fuchsine, n. a deep red aniline dye used in the pharmaceutical and textile-processing industries, rosaniline.

Etymology
FUCHSIA (from its resemblance to the colour of the flower)

ROGET THESAURUS

fuchsine

Redness

N redness, red, scarlet, vermilion, carmine, crimson, pink, lake, maroon, carnation, couleur de rose, rose du Barry, magenta, damask, purple, flesh color, flesh tint, color, fresh color, high color, warmth, gules, ruby, carbuncle, rose, rust, iron mold, cinnabar, cochineal, fuchsine, ruddle, madder, Indian red, light red, Venetian red, red ink, annotto, annatto, realgar, minium, red lead, redness, rubescence, rubicundity, rubification, erubescence, blush, red, reddish, rufous, ruddy, florid, incarnadine, sanguine, rosy, roseate, blowzy, blowed, burnt, rubicund, rubiform, lurid, stammell blood red, russet buff, murrey, carroty, sorrel, lateritious, rubineous, rubricate, rubricose, rufulous, rose-colored, ruby-colored, cherry-colored, claret-colored, flame- colored, flesh-colored, peach-colored, salmon-colored, brick-colored, brick-colored, dust-colored, blushing, erubescent, reddened, red as fire, red as blood, red as scarlet, red as a turkey cock, red as a lobster, warm, hot, foxy.


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