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Meanings of finger-root in English
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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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.
Usage of finger-root in English
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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.