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Noun: fingerroot
  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
    - common foxglove, fairy bell, fingerflower, finger-flower, finger-root, Digitalis purpurea

Derived forms: fingerroots, finger-roots

Type of: digitalis, foxglove

Encyclopedia: Fingerroot