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Meanings of Digitalis purpurea in English

Russian
пурпурная наперстянка
Portuguese
digitalis purpurea
Spanish
brotonica real
Catalan
digital
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Toxic flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae.

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        пурпурная наперстянка
        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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            digitalis purpurea
            Synonyms
            Examples for "fairy bells"
            Examples for "fairy bells"
            1
            Isn't it like a chime of fairy bells, heard in a dream?
            Round Anvil Rock: A Romance
            2
            Wild flax is always fairy flax, and harebells are fairy bells.
            Monitress Merle
            3
            On their backs the sleigh-bells jingled, merrily like fairy bells.
            Seven O'Clock Stories
            4
            They were sounds of delicate music and of tiny laughter, like the ringing of fairy bells.
            Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories
            5
            This merriment might be the music of fairy bells, such stuff as dreams are made of.
            The Vision Splendid
            Usage of Digitalis purpurea in English
            1
            The word for thimble in Latin is digitalis , from which comes the plant's scientific name, Digitalis purpurea.
            The Irish Times
            2
            Digitalis purpurea (Scrophulariaceae).-Extremelysterile, only a few poor capsules being produced.
            The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingd...