floppydock
Floppydock is a Devon dialect name for the foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) — the tall, strikingly beautiful wildflower and poisonous plant known across Britain for its tubular purple flowers.
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Floppydock is a Devon dialect name for the foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) — the tall, strikingly beautiful wildflower and poisonous plant known across Britain for its tubular purple flowers. Devon dialect has particularly rich plant-naming traditions, and 'floppydock' captures the foxglove's slightly drooping, soft floral spikes. The term is hyper-local and encountered in Devon dialect studies and local natural history records. The standard name 'foxglove' would be used everywhere else in Britain.
The lane was lined with floppydock, the purple spires nodding in the wind off the moor.
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(UK, Devon) The foxglove .
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