finger-flower

What does finger-flower mean?

finger-flower 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".

How many syllables are in finger-flower?

finger-flower has 4 syllables: fin-ger--flo-wer. The stress falls on "ger-".

What is another word for finger-flower?

Close synonyms include common foxglove, fairy bell, fingerflower, 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 finger-flower a common word?

finger-flower 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 finger-flower come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.