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FAIRY BELL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fairy bell mean?
• FAIRY BELL (noun)
The noun FAIRY BELL has 1 sense:
1. tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock
Familiarity information: FAIRY BELL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
common foxglove; Digitalis purpurea; fairy bell; finger-flower; finger-root; fingerflower; fingerroot
Hypernyms ("fairy bell" is a kind of...):
digitalis; foxglove (any of several plants of the genus Digitalis)
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