digitalis
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
digitalis
- Any plant of the genus Digitalis (herbaceous plants of the Plantaginaceae family, including the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea).
- 1834, James Moore, Gardens of the Misses Garnier in The Gardener’s Magazine, and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, volume 19 (1834), page 210 ↗
- 11. Delphiniums and digitalises.
- 1836, Joseph Harrison, The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists’ Magazine, volume 4, page 133 ↗:
- At the Medico-Botanical Society on Tuesday, Dr. Morries, made some some observations on opium, digitales, conium, and hyoscyamus, and exhibited specimens of oils obtained from the latter plants.
- 1903, American Florist, volume 19, page 555 ↗:
- Polemoniums of various species, aubretias, dwarf phloxes, delphiniums, digitalises, gerums, erigerons and a number of other things have bloomed a second time […]
- 1834, James Moore, Gardens of the Misses Garnier in The Gardener’s Magazine, and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, volume 19 (1834), page 210 ↗
- A medical extract of Digitalis purpurea prescribed for heart failure etc.
- 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 188:
- ‘You very nearly died. I had to give you digitalis three times.’
- 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2001, p. 25:
- The ancient remedy digitalis, extracted from the foxglove plant, for example, acts by blocking sodium channels in heart muscle, preventing potentially dangerous overactivity.
- 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 188:
- German: Fingerhut
- Italian: digitale
- Portuguese: digital, dedaleira
- Russian: наперстя́нка
- Spanish: digital, dedalera
- Portuguese: digitalina
- Spanish: digitalina
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