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noun
Boesenbergia rotunda, a plant related to ginger, with fingerlike roots used as a spice.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: Chinese keys, lesser galangal, Chinese ginger, kachai
Antonyms: none provided
noun
tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: common foxglove, fairy bell, fingerflower, finger-flower, finger-root, Digitalis purpurea
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: foxglove, digitalis
History
From finger + root.
Across languages
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
