资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Digitalis \Dig`i*ta"lis\, n. [NL.: cf. F. digitale. So named
   (according to Linn[ae]us) from its finger-shaped corolla.]
   1. (Bot.) A genus of plants including the foxglove.

   2. (Med.) The dried leaves of the purple foxglove ({Digitalis
      purpurea}), used in heart disease, disturbance of the
      circulation, etc.

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,
   both as a sedative and diuretic. See {Digitalis}.

         Pan through the pastures oftentimes hath run To pluck
         the speckled foxgloves from their stem.  --W. Browne.

资料来源 : WordNet®

Digitalis purpurea
     n : 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}]