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Fuchs

[ fyooks ]

noun

  1. Daniel, 1909–1993, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
  2. Klaus Emil Julius [klous], 1911–88, British physicist and atom spy for the Soviet Union, born in Germany.
  3. Sir Vivian (Ernest), 1908–1999, British geologist and Antarctic explorer.


Fuchs

/ fʊks; fuːks /

noun

  1. FuchsKlaus Emil19111988MBritishGermanSCIENCE: physicist Klaus Emil . (klaus ˈeːmiːl). 1911–88, East German physicist. He was born in Germany, became a British citizen (1942), and was imprisoned (1950–59) for giving secret atomic research information to the Soviet Union
  2. FuchsSir Vivian Ernest19081999MEnglishTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: explorerSCIENCE: geologist Sir Vivian Ernest . 1908–99, English explorer and geologist: led the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955–58)


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The next and last speaker was the class valedictorian, Officer James Fuchs.

Take Randi Fuchs, a 22-year-old English major who was accepted to her first-choice college and enrolled there in 2006.

The fuchsia took its name from Leonard Fuchs, a sixteenth-century botanist, the first German who really studied botany.

He talked of Kaulbach, whom he has known very intimately, being the publisher of the "Reineke Fuchs."

Kaulbach's great compositions are huge charades; and I have seen nothing of his equal to his own "Reineke Fuchs."

Fuchs; the ultimate origin is unknown, but a connexion has been suggested with Sanskrit puccha, tail.

Bald trifft er denn auch seinen Compadre, der soeben ein Tatu ausgegraben und mit seinem Fuchs erschlagen hat.

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