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Noun: Digitalis purpurea
  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, fingerroot, finger-root

Type of: digitalis, foxglove

Encyclopedia: Digitalis purpurea