digitalis

Meaning

Noun

• Any plant of the genus Digitalis (herbaceous plants of the Plantaginaceae family, including the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea).
• A medical extract of Digitalis purpurea prescribed for heart failure etc.

Origin

• Modern Latin, from Latin digitālis ("of the fingers") (named in reference to the German common name for the plant, Fingerhut). digital.