common foxglove

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

   Synonymsfairy bellfingerflowerfinger-flowerfingerrootfinger-rootDigitalis purpurea

   Broaderfoxglove

Questions about common foxglove

What does common foxglove mean?

common foxglove means "tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock".

What is another word for common foxglove?

Close synonyms include fairy bell, fingerflower, finger-flower, fingerroot, finger-root. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common foxglove a common word?

common foxglove is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.