fingerroot
Boesenbergia rotunda, a plant related to ginger, with fingerlike roots used as a spiceBoesenbergia rotunda, a plant related to ginger, with fingerlike roots used as a spice.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)Boesenbergia rotunda, a plant related to ginger, with fingerlike roots used as a spice.
More definitions
- tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock
Origin
From finger + root.From finger + root.
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Synonyms
10 synonymsClose in 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:common foxglovefairy bellfingerflowerfinger-flowerfinger-rootDigitalis purpurea
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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