Noun: digitalis
| Singular | digitalis |
| Plural | digitalises |
Sample Sentences
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11. Delphiniums and digitalises. [1834, James Moore, “Gardens of the Misses Garnier”, in The Gardener’s Magazine, and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, volume 19, page 210:]
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At the Medico-Botanical Society on Tuesday, Dr. Morries, made some some observations on opium, digitales, conium, and hyoscyamus, and exhibited specimens of oils obtained from the latter plants. [1836, Joseph Harrison, The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists’ Magazine, volume 4, page 133:]
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Polemoniums of various species, aubretias, dwarf phloxes, delphiniums, digitalises, gerums, erigerons and a number of other things have bloomed a second time […] [1903, American Florist, volume 19, page 555:]
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‘You very nearly died. I had to give you digitalis three times.’ [1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 188:]
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The ancient remedy digitalis, extracted from the foxglove plant, for example, acts by blocking sodium channels in heart muscle, preventing potentially dangerous overactivity. [2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 25:]
Nouns inflected like digitalis
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Modern Latin, from Latin digitālis (“of the fingers”) (named in reference to the German common name for the plant, Fingerhut (“thimble”)). Doublet of digital. See: Latin Nouns '
digitālis'.