fingerroot

Definitions of fingerroot
  1. noun
    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, finger-root, fingerflower
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    type of:
    digitalis, foxglove
    any of several plants of the genus Digitalis
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