noun

• A drug containing the active constituents of digitalis.

  ‘Deer also avoid plants that people consider medicinal and poisonous: foxgloves (the plant source of the cardiac drug digitalin), poppies (the plant source of opium), daffodils, and lily-of-the-valley.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Digitalis, a drug prepared from digitalin, a glycoside obtained from the common foxglove, is used in medicine.’
  • ‘In this way a digitalin of indefinite composition is obtained, consisting of such glucosides as digitin, digitonin, etc.’