FOXGLOVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foxglove mean? 

• FOXGLOVE (noun)
  The noun FOXGLOVE has 1 sense:

1. any of several plants of the genus Digitalis

  Familiarity information: FOXGLOVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOXGLOVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several plants of the genus Digitalis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

digitalis; foxglove

Hypernyms ("foxglove" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "foxglove"):

common foxglove; Digitalis purpurea; fairy bell; finger-flower; finger-root; fingerflower; fingerroot (tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock)

Digitalis lutea; straw foxglove; yellow foxglove (European yellow-flowered foxglove)

Holonyms ("foxglove" is a member of...):

genus Digitalis (genus of Eurasian herbs having alternate leaves and racemes of showy bell-shaped flowers)

 Context examples 

A glycoside compound, extracted from the leaves and seeds of the common foxglove, with anti-arrhythmic property.

(Digitalin, NCI Thesaurus)

Digitalis is made from the dried leaves of Digitalis purpurea (common foxglove) plants.

(Digitalis, NCI Dictionary)

I considered it a narrative of facts, and discovered in it a vein of interest deeper than what I found in fairy tales: for as to the elves, having sought them in vain among foxglove leaves and bells, under mushrooms and beneath the ground-ivy mantling old wall-nooks, I had at length made up my mind to the sad truth, that they were all gone out of England to some savage country where the woods were wilder and thicker, and the population more scant; whereas, Lilliput and Brobdignag being, in my creed, solid parts of the earth's surface, I doubted not that I might one day, by taking a long voyage, see with my own eyes the little fields, houses, and trees, the diminutive people, the tiny cows, sheep, and birds of the one realm; and the corn-fields forest-high, the mighty mastiffs, the monster cats, the tower-like men and women, of the other.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)