fox gloveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

名詞

foxglove (複数形 foxgloves)

1. Digitalis, a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous biennials native to the Old World, certain of which are prized for their showy flowers. The drug digitalis or digoxin was first isolated from the plant.
   • 1908, Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck‎^[1], New York: Frederick Warne & Co:

     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.

   • 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 258:

     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.

   • 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 41:

     There were bunches of wild garlic to keep out evil spirits, foxgloves for healing spells and hemlock and vervain for darker magic.

派生語

• big-flowered foxglove (Digitalis grandiflora)
• Canary Island foxglove (Digitalis canariensis)
• Chinese foxglove (Rehmannia elata, Rehmannia glutinosa)
• ciliate foxglove (Digitalis ciliata)
• common foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)
• desert foxglove (Eremophila platythamnos)
• downy falseglove (Gerardia virginica)
• fairy foxglove (Erinus alpinus)
• false foxgloves (Agalinis spp., Aureolaria spp.)
• fingerhut foxglove (Digitalis thapsi)
• foxglove aphid (Acyrthosiphon solani)
• foxglove beardtongue (Penstemon cobaea, Penstemon digitalis)
• foxglove penstemon (Penstemon cobaea, Penstemon digitalis)
• foxglove pug (Eupithecia pulchellata)
• giraffe foxglove (Digitalis laevigata)
• Grecian foxglove (Digitalis lanata, Digitalis laevigata)
• hairy foxglove (Digitalis ciliata)
• lady's foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)
• large yellow foxglove (Digitalis grandiflora)
• mullein foxglove (Seymeria macrophylla)
• purple foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)
• rusty foxglove (Digitalis ferruginea)
• small yellow foxglove (Digitalis lutea)
• Spanish foxglove (Digitalis thapsi)
• straw foxglove (Digitalis lutea)
• strawberry foxglove (Digitalis × fulva)
• sunset foxglove (Digitalis obscura)
• wild foxgloves (Gerardia virginica, Penstemon spp.)
• willow-leaved foxglove (Digitalis obscura)
• woolly foxglove (Digitalis lanata)
• yellow foxgloves (Digitalis grandiflora, Gerardia spp.)