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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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            Usage of digitalis purpurea in English
            1
            Digitalis purpurea (Scrophulariaceae).-Extremelysterile, only a few poor capsules being produced.
            The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingd...
            2
            The word for thimble in Latin is digitalis , from which comes the plant's scientific name, Digitalis purpurea.
            The Irish Times