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FINGER-ROOT

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• FINGER-ROOT (noun)
The noun FINGER-ROOT has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: FINGER-ROOT used as a noun is very rare.

• FINGER-ROOT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

common foxglove; Digitalis purpurea; fairy bell; finger-flower; finger-root; fingerflower; fingerroot

Hypernyms ("finger-root" is a kind of...):

digitalis; foxglove (any of several plants of the genus Digitalis)

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