'fingerroot' definitions:
Definition of 'fingerroot'
From: WordNet
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 [syn: common foxglove, fairy bell, fingerflower, finger-flower, fingerroot, finger-root, Digitalis purpurea]
Definition of 'fingerroot'
From: GCIDE
- fingerroot \fingerroot\ n. tall leafy European biennial or perennial ({Digitalis purpurea}) having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; -- its leaves yield the drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock.
- Syn: common foxglove, fairy bell, fingerflower, {Digitalis purpurea}. [WordNet 1.5]