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Definition of Foxgloves
1. foxglove [n] - See also: foxglove
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foxgloves
Literary usage of Foxgloves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report by New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Botanical Dept (1908)
"HYBRID Foxgloves. Digitalis purpurea, L., a biennial cultivated species about
three feet high with rugose, somewhat downy leaves, bearing bell- formed, ..."
2. A Woman's Hardy Garden by Helena Rutherfurd Ely (1903)
"Foxgloves and Sweet Williams, if allowed to go to seed, will sow themselves and
increase rapidly. The same with Hollyhocks, but, except on the edges of ..."
3. The Trespasser by David Herbert Lawrence (1912)
"THE way home lay across country, through deep little lanes where the late foxgloves
sat seriously, like sad hounds; over open downlands, rough with gorse ..."
4. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1884)
"Ragged robins shook with glee, Foxgloves laughed in company, Till the sun peeped
forth to see Through a cloud-embrasure ; Lo ! the rain was past and gone, ..."
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