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purple foxglove
noun
- a medicinal plant, Digitalis purpurea, of western Europe, having finger-shaped, spotted, purple flowers and leaves from which digitalis is obtained.
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Around the opening grew wild gooseberries and golden broom and a few tall spires of purple foxglove.
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The leaves of the uncultivated Digitalis purpurea, or purple foxglove, are officinal in our pharmacopias.
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A vegetable principle discovered by M. Royer in Digitalis purpurea, or purple foxglove.
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All parts of the plant Digitalis purpurea (purple foxglove) are poisonous.
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There was prussic acid poisoning from almonds and digitalin poisoning from purple foxglove.
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