Foxglove Definition

fŏksglŭv
noun

Digitalis.

Webster's New World
Any of several herbs of the genus Digitalis, especially D. purpurea of Europe and northern Africa, having a long cluster of large, tubular, pinkish-purple flowers and leaves that are the source of the drug digitalis.
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Noun

Singular:
foxglove
Plural:
foxgloves

Origin of Foxglove

  • From the resemblance of its flowers to the fingers of a glove

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From fox +‎ glove.

    From Wiktionary

Foxglove Sentence Examples

  • Digitalis (Foxglove) This plant actually gives us the heart medicine digitalis (Foxglove) This plant actually gives us the heart medicine digitalis, but ingested in uncontrolled quantities, it can be deadly.

  • It is like a very tall foxglove in shape.

  • Much later the healing properties of the drug digitalis, also from the foxglove plant, was extolled by doctors.

  • Designed by Telford in 1792, it has a very high back and is host to a rare species of fairy foxglove.

  • Foxglove and tormentil in flower, with lady fern, hard fern and wood horsetail making a good display in the damper areas.

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