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[syn: common foxglove, fairy bell, fingerflower, finger-flower, fingerroot, finger-root, Digitalis purpurea]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
fingerroot \fingerroot\ n.
tall leafy European biennial or perennial (Digitalis
purpurea) having spectacular clusters of large tubular
pink-purple flowers; -- its leaves yield the drug digitalis
and are poisonous to livestock.
Syn: common foxglove, fairy bell, fingerflower, Digitalis
purpurea.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
fingerroot
n 1: tall leafy European biennial or perennial having
spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers;
leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock
[syn: common foxglove, fairy bell, fingerflower,
finger-flower, fingerroot, finger-root, Digitalis
purpurea]