| NOUN | a purple foxglove | purple foxgloves | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- The company also grew gardens of plants for research and products, including acres of the purple foxglove flower for the heart medicine digitalis.
- The story involved real-life physician William Withering, who appeared to have learned of the value of the purple foxglove in the treatment of dropsy from 'Old Mother Hutton', the Shropshire herb-woman whom he met in Stafford or Birmingham and to whom he gave gold sovereigns for the information, as depicted hypothetically in the painting by William Meade Prince (1893-1951).
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