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FOXGLOVE

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Meaning:

Any of several plants of the genus Digitalis

Synonyms:

digitalis; foxglove

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "foxglove"):

common foxglove; Digitalis purpurea; fairy bell; finger-flower; finger-root; fingerflower; fingerroot (tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock)

Digitalis lutea; straw foxglove; yellow foxglove (European yellow-flowered foxglove)

Holonyms ("foxglove" is a member of...):

genus Digitalis (genus of Eurasian herbs having alternate leaves and racemes of showy bell-shaped flowers)

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