digitalis的词源

英文词源

digitalis (n.)

1660s, Modern Latin translation of German fingerhut, the German name of "foxglove," literally "thimble." Named by Fuchs (1542), and so called for its shape. The medicine (originally extracted from the plant) is so called from 1799.

中文词源

digitalis：洋地黄

来自digit, 因花朵形如手指而得名。俗名叫做foxglove.

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