FAIRY BELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fairy bell mean? 

• FAIRY BELL (noun)
  The noun FAIRY BELL has 1 sense:

1. tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock

  Familiarity information: FAIRY BELL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAIRY BELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

common foxglove; Digitalis purpurea; fairy bell; finger-flower; finger-root; fingerflower; fingerroot

Hypernyms ("fairy bell" is a kind of...):

digitalis; foxglove (any of several plants of the genus Digitalis)