foxglove : Idioms & Phrases

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common foxglove

  • noun tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock
    fairy bell; Digitalis purpurea; fingerroot; fingerflower; finger-flower; finger-root.
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false foxglove

  • noun sparsely branched North American perennial with terminal racemes of bright yellow flowers resembling those of the foxglove; sometimes placed in genus Gerardia
    Gerardia virginica; Aureolaria virginica.
  • noun multi-stemmed North American annual having solitary axillary dark golden-yellow flowers resembling those of the foxglove; sometimes placed in genus Gerardia
    Gerardia pedicularia; Aureolaria pedicularia.
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foxglove family

  • noun a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales
    Scrophulariaceae; family Scrophulariaceae; figwort family.
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Mullein foxglove

  • an American herb (Seymeria macrophylla) with coarse leaves and yellow tubular flowers with a spreading border.
Webster 1913

straw foxglove

  • noun European yellow-flowered foxglove
    Digitalis lutea; straw foxglove.
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yellow foxglove

  • noun European yellow-flowered foxglove
    Digitalis lutea; straw foxglove.
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