Finger-root

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  finger-root
       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 [syn:
            {common foxglove}, {fairy bell}, {fingerflower}, {finger-flower},
            {fingerroot}, {Digitalis purpurea}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fingerroot
       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 [syn:
            {common foxglove}, {fairy bell}, {fingerflower}, {finger-flower},
            {finger-root}, {Digitalis purpurea}]