finger-root

2 definitions found

finger-root - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  fingerroot \fingerroot\ n.
     tall leafy European biennial or perennial (Digitalis purpurea
     ) having spectacular clusters of large tubular
     pink-purple flowers; -- its leaves yield the drug digitalis
     and are poisonous to livestock.
  
     Syn: common foxglove, fairy bell, fingerflower, Digitalis   purpurea
          .
          [WordNet 1.5]

finger-root - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  finger-root
      n 1: tall leafy European biennial or perennial having
           spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers;
           leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock
           [syn: common foxglove, fairy bell, fingerflower,
           finger-flower, fingerroot, finger-root, Digitalis purpurea
           ]