foxglove
IPA: fˈɑksgɫʌv
noun
- Digitalis, a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous biennials native to the Old World, certain of which are prized for their showy flowers. The drug digitalis or digoxin was first isolated from the plant.
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Examples of "foxglove" in Sentences
- It usually feeds inside foxglove flowers.
- The tall foxglove is considered endangered.
- The symbol for werewolves is a black foxglove.
- It's basically a refined version of an herb... foxglove.
- That goes for the author of this headline, too. foxglove
- And it's possible there's too much information on Foxglove.
- Foxglove is a supporting character in the Sandman graphic novel .
- I think the water droplets on the foxglove are well balanced!!!!!
- I love columbine and foxglove is one of my favourite wild flowers.
- But I think my facts will be based on it when the Foxglove is made.
- The larvae of the Foxglove Pug feed on the flowers of Digitalis purpurea.
- This genus was traditionally placed in the foxglove family Scrophulariaceae.
- Amiodarone can worsen the cardiac arrhythmia brought on by Foxglove poisoning.
- During our ride we found also a yellow kind of foxglove, and some pretty little wild flowers.
- A WildLands Seed Team collects and catalogs plants with names like blazing star, orange puccoon, squaw weed and eared false foxglove.
- Note—Peg told me that several days ago the queen miscarried; they eased her pain with mugwort and foxglove, and she is now recovering.
- The name foxglove is a corruption of the term folk’s glove, meaning the wee folk, one of the many monikers given to the fairies over the ages.
- Other plants, such as foxglove or the opium poppy, can have strong effects in humans if the whole plant is eaten, or a simple tea is prepared from them.
- Brangwyn's clever treatment of zoölogical and botanical detail is well shown in flowers in the foreground, such as foxglove and freesia, and the graceful forms of a pair of pinkish flamingoes.
- The foxglove, which is guilty of only sly, petty larceny, wears not the equivalent of the striped suit and the shaved head; nor does the mistletoe, which steals crude food from the tree, but still digests it itself, and is therefore only a dingy yellowish green.
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