单词 | foxglove |
释义 | foxglove (once / 12508 pages) n WORD FAMILY foxglove: foxgloves USAGE EXAMPLESDigitalis — foxglove — is toxic, a staple of murder mysteries. Washington Post(Jun 29, 2016) This year Ruth planted some foxglove, which is kind of a poor man’s hollyhock. Washington Post(Jun 26, 2016) From the gardening shows my grandmother watched, I’d learned the words for flowers I had never seen in person: foxglove, lilac, lily, buttercup. The New Yorker(May 30, 2016) n any of several plants of the genus Digitalis Syn|Hypo|Hyper digitalis Digitalis purpurea, common foxglove, fairy bell, finger-flower, finger-root, fingerflower, fingerroot tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock Digitalis lutea, straw foxglove, yellow foxgloveEuropean yellow-flowered foxglove herb, herbaceous plant a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests |
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