HyperDic: fingerroot

English > 1 sense of the word fingerroot:
NOUNplantfingerroot, common foxglove, fairy bell, fingerflower, finger-flower, finger-root, Digitalis purpureatall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers
English > fingerroot: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningtall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock.
Synonymscommon foxglove, fairy bell, fingerflower, finger-flower, finger-root, Digitalis purpurea
Broaderfoxglove, digitalisAny of several plants of the genus Digitalis
CatalanDigitalis purpurea

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