FINGERROOT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock

Synonyms:

common foxglove; Digitalis purpurea; fairy bell; finger-flower; finger-root; fingerflower; fingerroot

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("fingerroot" is a kind of...):

digitalis; foxglove (any of several plants of the genus Digitalis)

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