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finger-root

DEFINITIONS OF: finger-root

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n 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:
Digitalis purpurea, common foxglove, fairy bell, finger-flower, fingerflower, fingerroot
Type of:
digitalis, foxglove
any of several plants of the genus Digitalis
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