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Meanings of Digitalis purpurea in English
Toxic flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae.
Related terms
Portuguese
digitalis purpurea Tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock.
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Examples for "common foxglove"
Examples for "common foxglove"
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Like a fairy bell came the sound of her voice upon his ears:
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The clear notes of the refrain, struck regularly with the sound of a fairy bell, had begun to help and soothe her.
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It was at this very moment that Bellah, who was skimming the milk in the farm dairy, heard the fairy bell tinkle violently.
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At midnight a little elf, whose home was deep in the heart of an oak tree, came forth and rang a fairy bell.
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Isn't it like a chime of fairy bells, heard in a dream?
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Their very hair was laden with odor, their fingers flower-sweet, their minds took on the many colors of their exquisite surroundings.
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Her white hands, with their rose-pink nails and little round dimples at the finger roots, felt hard and remorseless as steel claws.
Usage of Digitalis purpurea in English
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The word for thimble in Latin is digitalis , from which comes the plant's scientific name, Digitalis purpurea.
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Digitalis purpurea (Scrophulariaceae).-Extremelysterile, only a few poor capsules being produced.
Translations for Digitalis purpurea
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