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foxglove
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Bank upon bank of thrift and proud long-stemmed daisies intermingled with huge expanses of gorse and foxgloves. ▪ I tell you, every single thing that's happened fits like a bee in a foxglove . ▪ In the walled garden, the foxglove ...
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Foxglove is a 2008 short film written, directed and produced by Jay Rodan and Kayt Jones . It stars Jay Rodan, Daniel Travis and Annie Burgstede . Described as darkly satirical film with surreal overtones, it premiered at the 2008 Locarno International ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foxglove \Fox"glove`\, n. [AS. foxes-gl[=o]fa, foxes-cl[=o]fa,foxes-clife.] (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Digitalis . The common English foxglove ( Digitalis purpurea ) is a handsome perennial or biennial plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine, ...
Usage examples of foxglove.
The same stem as in foxgloves but with darning introduced up the centre.
It was entirely concerned with the affairs of things that grow and flourish in the bright sunlight, with the dogbane and the lily, the evening primrose and the silky foxglove and the yellow mustard tall beside the crabapple with its purple blossoms.
He had stridden over them for hours and had found delectable things--a new lochan with trout rising among yellow water-lilies, a glen full of alders and singing waters, a hollow with old gnarled firs in it and the ruins of a cottage pink with foxgloves.
Sure, I gave her a bunch of flowers wid poppies in it, and daisies, and furze-blossom, and foxglove, and forgit-me-not, and midowsweet, and sez I to her, which of thim was the finest coloured.
The road was unhedged, running between wide strips of rank grass in which wood garlic, foxgloves, columbine and yellow archangel grew.
The vines of the clematis tangutica climbed the trellis and the foxglove and aconitum looked hearty and healthy.
In a tiny clearing surrounded by the oldest trees lay a carpet of wildflowers of every hue, many unknown in the north: orchid, iris, bellflower, campion, foxglove, betony, pimpernel, primrose, violet, and cranesbill.
The bulbs may be divided every three years with advantage, and may be usefully planted in lines in front of shrubs, or mixed with other strong-growing flowers, such as alkanets, lupins, and foxgloves.
And this brings us to another curious question: the sudden and abundant appearance of plants, like the foxglove and Epilobium angustifolium, in spots where they have never been seen before.
Foxglove to Wycombe Abbey, and Ellie truly felt like a fairy princess.
The slope was covered with early foxgloves, saxifrage, and parsley fern.
It was festooned with flowers: bluebells and foxgloves and harebells and daffodils, but also with violets and lilies, with tiny crimson dog-roses, pale snowdrops, blue forget-me-nots and a profusion of other flowers Dunstan could not name.
Along the cropped hedges red campions flower so thickly as to take the place of green leaves, and by every gateway red foxgloves grow.
Under the hedges grew foxgloves and tall spikes of woundwort—"A styptic, used to staunch the bleeding of injuries," observed Rohain—and white deadnettles, whose dry hollow stems she collected in a bunch.
For example, there is some evidence that atropine-one of the chief active ingredients in hemlock, foxglove, deadly nightshade, and jimson weed-induces the illusion of flying.