foxglove
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- noun
- /ˈfɑksˌɡlʌv/
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dedalera
- Extracts from foxglove are used in heart medications due to their medicinal properties.
Lupins, Delphinium, foxglove, Yarrow, they're a stock.
- Lupins, Delphinium, foxglove, Yarrow, they're a stock.
Examples
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Foxglove is poisonous, isn't it?
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Any of some twenty plants in the genus Digitalis, foxglove had been used as a medicine by hosts of people, from ancient Greeks to medieval Welsh.
Academic text (2008) -
The essence of the foxglove flower will calm the heart and help it keep its rhythm.
Fiction book (1992) -
On a high ditch, there is one remaining foxglove flowering out of season.
Blog text (1) -
An example of these early discoveries is digitalis, derived from the foxglove, and used to treat congestive heart failure.
Academic text (1997) -
Her garden had old-fashioned flowers, bright colored, a little wild: marigold, cosmos, foxglove, phlox.
Fiction book (2001) -
In the mid-1600s, for example, the herbalist Nicholas Culpeper recommended foxglove for treating epilepsy.
Academic text (2008) -
The child had picked flowers—lupine, foxglove, wild snapdragons—laid them in my arms and in a distance smoky with dusk.
Fiction book (2000) -
The foxglove plant is known for its tall stalks and bell-shaped flowers that attract many pollinators.
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Many gardeners choose foxglove for its beautiful purple blooms, which add color to their landscapes.
Synonyms
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A tall garden plant with long spikes of bell shaped flowers called foxglove
A tall European plant with clusters of pink-purple tube flowers whose leaves make heart medicine and can poison farm animals
A tall plant with pale yellow bell-shaped flowers often grown in gardens
A wildflower from Europe with small yellow flowers shaped like tubes
A European plant with soft yellow, tube-shaped flowers
Compounds
A tall European plant with clusters of pink-purple tube flowers whose leaves make heart medicine and can poison farm animals
- Specialized
A family of flowering plants that includes foxgloves and snapdragons
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Foxglove comes from the joining of fox and glove; one popular story says the bell-shaped flowers look like tiny gloves that might fit a fox's paw, and another says it may come from 'folk's glove' meaning 'fairy glove'. So the name is an easy picture: a tall plant with tube or glove-shaped flowers — pretty but often poisonous and used for heart medicine.