foxglove

See also: fox-glove

English

Alternative forms

• fox-glove

Etymology

From Middle English fox-glove, foxes glove, from Old English foxes glōfa (“foxglove”), surface analysis as fox +‎ glove.

Noun

foxglove (plural foxgloves)

foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)

1. Digitalis, a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous biennials native to the Old World, certain of which are prized for their showy flowers. The drug digitalis or digoxin was first isolated from the plant.
   • 1908, Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, New York: Frederick Warne & Co., [1]

     Jemima alighted rather heavily, and began to waddle about in search of a convenient dry nesting-place. She rather fancied a tree-stump amongst some tall fox-gloves.

Derived terms

• big-flowered foxglove ()
• Canary Island foxglove ()
• Chinese foxglove (, Rehmannia glutinosa)
• ciliate foxglove ()
• common foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)
• desert foxglove ()
• downy falseglove ()
• fairy foxglove ()
• false foxgloves (Agalinis spp., spp.)
• fingerhut foxglove ()
• foxglove aphid ()
• foxglove beardtongue (, )
• foxglove penstemon (, )
• foxglove pug ()
• giraffe foxglove ()
• Grecian foxglove (Digitalis lanata, )
• hairy foxglove ()
• lady's foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)
• large yellow foxglove ()
• mullein foxglove ()
• purple foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)
• rusty foxglove ()
• small yellow foxglove ()
• Spanish foxglove ()
• straw foxglove ()
• strawberry foxglove ()
• sunset foxglove ()
• wild foxgloves (, Penstemon spp.)
• willow-leaved foxglove ()
• woolly foxglove (Digitalis lanata)
• yellow foxgloves (, spp.)

Translations

plant of the genus Digitalis

• Arabic: قِمَعية (qimaey)
• Armenian: մատնոցուկ (hy) (matnocʻuk)
• Azerbaijani: üskükotu
• Belarusian: наперстаўка f (napjerstaŭka)
• Bulgarian: напръстник m (naprǎstnik)
• Catalan: didalera f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 指頂花／指顶花 (zhĭ dĭng huā)

• Czech: náprstník (cs) m
• Danish: fingerbøl (da) c
• Dutch: vingerhoedskruid (nl) n
• Esperanto: digitalo
• Estonian: sõrmkübar
• Finnish: sormustinkukka (fi)
• French: digitale (fr) f
• Galician: abeluria (gl) f, milicroque (gl) m, estalote (gl) m, dedaleira f, croque (gl) m, dixital (gl) f
• Georgian: ფუტკარა (puṭḳara)
• German: Fingerhut (de) m
• Greek: χελιδονόχορτο n (chelidonóchorto)
• Hebrew: אֶצְבְּעוֹנִית f (argemanit)
• Hungarian: gyűszűvirág (hu)
• Icelandic: fingurbjargarblóm n
• Ido: digitalo (io)
• Irish: lus mór m, méaracán dearg m
• Italian: digitale (it) f
• Japanese: ジギタリス (jigitarisu)
• Kabardian: ӏэпэлъ (ʼɛpɛlˢ)
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• Kashubian: palecznica f
• Kazakh: оймақгүл (oimaqgül)
• Latvian: uzpirkstīte f
• Lithuanian: rusmenė f
• Macedonian: напрсток m (naprstok)
• Manx: sleggan sleeu f
• North Frisian: fangerhud
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: revebjelle (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: revebjølle (nn) f

• Polish: naparstnica f
• Portuguese: dedaleira (pt) f
• Romanian: degetar (ro) n, degetariță (ro) f, degețel (ro) n
• Russian: наперстя́нка (ru) f (naperstjánka)
• Samogitian: skombalielē f
• Scottish Gaelic: lus nam ban-sìth m
• Slovak: náprstník m
• Slovene: naprstec m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: tutawka f

  Upper Sorbian: naporst m

• Spanish: digital (es) f
• Swedish: fingerborgsblomma (sv) c
• Tagalog: dihital
• Telugu: డిజిటాలిస్ (ḍijiṭālis)
• Thai: ถุงมือจิ้งจอก (tŭng meu jîng-jòk)
• Turkish: yüksük otu (tr)
• Ukrainian: наперстянка f (naperstjanka)