digitalis purpurea

What does digitalis purpurea mean?

digitalis purpurea 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 digitalis purpurea?

Close synonyms include common foxglove, fairy bell, fingerflower, finger-flower, fingerroot. 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 digitalis purpurea a common word?

digitalis purpurea 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for digitalis purpurea come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.