Fingerroot (Noun)
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.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Foxglove plants often grow together with fingerroot in European wilderness.
- Fingerroot grows nearby tall clusters of Foxglove species that have poisonous Foxglove leaves.
- European gardeners take note that clusters of Foxglove can be found growing in the same fields that fingerroot inhabits.
- The root of fingerroot remains small under soil surfaces and gets its nutrients while clusters of flowering Foxglove bloom.
- Fingerroot and tall Foxglove species often being found around the same area by gardeners throughout Southern Europe and Eurasia