Magenta is a synonym of fuchsia.
As nouns the difference between fuchsia and magenta
is that
fuchsia is a popular garden plant, of the genus
Fuchsia, of the
Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers while
magenta is a light purple, purplish-red, or pinkish purple colour obtained by mixing red and blue light (thus a secondary colour), but primary in the CMYK colour system used in printing.
As adjectives the difference between fuchsia and magenta
is that
fuchsia is having a purplish-red colour while
magenta is having the colour of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.
As a proper noun Magenta is
a town in Northern Italy, site of the
Battle of Magenta after which the color
magenta was named.
fuchsia
Noun
(
en noun)
A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia'', of the ''Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.
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Quotations
; plant
* 1922' : Drenched were the cold '''fuchsias , round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves. - , ''At The Bay (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 281)
Synonyms
* (colour) magenta
Adjective
(-)
Having a purplish-red colour.
See also
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magenta
Noun
(
en noun)
A light purple, purplish-red, or pinkish purple colour obtained by mixing red and blue light (thus a secondary colour), but primary in the CMYK colour system used in printing.
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Synonyms
* fuchsia
* fuchsine
Adjective
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en adjective)
having the colour of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.
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Anagrams
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