資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Digitalis \Dig`i*ta"lis\, n. [NL.: cf. F. digitale. So named
(according to Linn[ae]us) from its finger-shaped corolla.]
1. (Bot.) A genus of plants including the foxglove.
2. (Med.) The dried leaves of the purple foxglove ({Digitalis
purpurea}), used in heart disease, disturbance of the
circulation, etc.
Foxglove \Fox"glove`\, n. [AS. foxes-gl[=o]fa,
foxes-cl[=o]fa,foxes-clife.] (Bot.)
Any plant of the genus {Digitalis}. The common English
foxglove ({Digitalis purpurea}) is a handsome perennial or
biennial plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine,
both as a sedative and diuretic. See {Digitalis}.
Pan through the pastures oftentimes hath run To pluck
the speckled foxgloves from their stem. --W. Browne.
資料來源 : WordNet®
Digitalis purpurea
n : 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}, {fairy bell}, {fingerflower}, {finger-flower},
{fingerroot}, {finger-root}]