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Word entry · 8 letters

foxglove

Best crossword clue

"Digitalis garden bloom"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPart of speech nounSorted efgloovxStarts with FEnds with E2 cluesCommon crossword word
1F2O3X4G5L6O7V8E

Definitions

  1. any of several plants of the genus Digitalis

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • I wonder whether the witches would be wearing on their fingers their ornaments of foxglove blossoms, often called witches' bells or harebells, sometimes known as witches' thimbles.
  • There were bunches of wild garlic to keep out evil spirits, foxgloves for healing spells and hemlock and vervain for darker magic.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Digitalis garden bloom8 letters
02Tall garden flower8 letters

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