foxglove
foxglove
Definition
fox·glove (fäks′gluv′)
foxglove
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- see: We saw foxgloves, campions of both colors, forget-me-nots.
Adjective modifier
- tall: It is like a very tall foxglove in shape.
- wild: Medicines for heart disease, for example, are still produced today from wild foxgloves.
Modifies a noun
- plant: Much later the healing properties of the drug digitalis, also from the foxglove plant, was extolled by doctors.
- tree: Obtaining and planting a standard Paulownia Tomentosa ( foxglove tree ) securely staked adjacent to Shenfield Library.
- seed: Cowslip plantlets and foxglove seeds were donated by local gardeners.
- leave: Over 200 years ago a country doctor discovered that an extract of foxglove leaves helped patients with some kinds of heart disease.
- family: Penstemons are a very popular group of plants belonging to the foxglove family.
- tea: In addition to its more dramatic medical uses, foxglove tea makes cut flowers last longer.
Noun used with modifier
- fairy: Designed by Telford in 1792, it has a very high back and is host to a rare species of fairy foxglove.
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