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fingerflower

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fin⋅ger⋅flow⋅er

[fing-ger-flou-er]

Origin:
1620–30; finger + flower

purple foxglove

–noun
a medicinal plant, Digitalis purpurea, of western Europe, having finger-shaped, spotted, purple flowers and leaves from which digitalis is obtained.
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fingerflower

noun
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
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