Word Meanings - DIGITALIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A genus of plants including the foxglove.
Related words: (words related to DIGITALIS)
- INCLUDED
Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them. - GENUS
A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms. - INCLUDE
1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell. 2. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason - INCLUDIBLE
Capable of being included. - FOXGLOVE
Any plant of the genus Digitalis. The common English foxglove is a handsome perennial or biennial plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine, both as a sedative and diuretic. See Digitalis. Pan through the pastures oftentimes hath run To - SUBGENUS
A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.