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foxglove
(encz) | foxglove,náprstník červený Jaroslav Šedivý |
Foxglove
(gcide) | Foxglove \Fox"glove`\, n. [AS. foxes-gl[=o]fa,
foxes-cl[=o]fa,foxes-clife.] (Bot.)
Any plant of the genus Digitalis. The common English
foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a handsome perennial or
biennial plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine,
both as a sedative and diuretic. See Digitalis.
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Pan through the pastures oftentimes hath run
To pluck the speckled foxgloves from their stem. --W.
Browne.
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foxglove
(wn) | foxglove
n 1: any of several plants of the genus Digitalis [syn:
foxglove, digitalis] |
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common foxglove
(encz) | common foxglove, n: |
false foxglove
(encz) | false foxglove, n: |
foxglove family
(encz) | foxglove family, n: |
straw foxglove
(encz) | straw foxglove, n: |
yellow foxglove
(encz) | yellow foxglove, n: |
Foxglove
(gcide) | Foxglove \Fox"glove`\, n. [AS. foxes-gl[=o]fa,
foxes-cl[=o]fa,foxes-clife.] (Bot.)
Any plant of the genus Digitalis. The common English
foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a handsome perennial or
biennial plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine,
both as a sedative and diuretic. See Digitalis.
[1913 Webster]
Pan through the pastures oftentimes hath run
To pluck the speckled foxgloves from their stem. --W.
Browne.
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Mullein foxglove
(gcide) | Mullein \Mul"lein\, n. [OE. moleyn, AS. molegn.] (Bot.)
Any plant of the genus Verbascum. They are tall herbs
having coarse leaves, and large flowers in dense spikes. The
common species, with densely woolly leaves, is {Verbascum
Thapsus}.
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Moth mullein. See under Moth.
Mullein foxglove, an American herb (Seymeria macrophylla)
with coarse leaves and yellow tubular flowers with a
spreading border.
Petty mullein, the cowslip. --Dr. Prior.
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common foxglove
(wn) | common foxglove
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}] |
false foxglove
(wn) | false foxglove
n 1: sparsely branched North American perennial with terminal
racemes of bright yellow flowers resembling those of the
foxglove; sometimes placed in genus Gerardia [syn: {false
foxglove}, Aureolaria virginica, Gerardia virginica]
2: multi-stemmed North American annual having solitary axillary
dark golden-yellow flowers resembling those of the foxglove;
sometimes placed in genus Gerardia [syn: false foxglove,
Aureolaria pedicularia, Gerardia pedicularia] |
foxglove family
(wn) | foxglove family
n 1: 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 [syn:
Scrophulariaceae, family Scrophulariaceae, {figwort
family}, foxglove family] |
straw foxglove
(wn) | straw foxglove
n 1: European yellow-flowered foxglove [syn: yellow foxglove,
straw foxglove, Digitalis lutea] |
yellow foxglove
(wn) | yellow foxglove
n 1: European yellow-flowered foxglove [syn: yellow foxglove,
straw foxglove, Digitalis lutea] |
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