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FINGERFLOWER

Dictionary entry overview: What does fingerflower mean?

• FINGERFLOWER (noun)
The noun FINGERFLOWER 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: FINGERFLOWER used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FINGERFLOWER (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 ("fingerflower" is a kind of...):

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

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