Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
saxifragant .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Dissolving stone, especially dissolving stone in the bladder.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete, medicine Dissolving bladder stones.
Etymologies
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Latin saxifragus "stone-breaking", from saxum "stone" + frangere "to break".
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Examples
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A few steps more brought me amid huge rocks covered with moss and saxifragous plants, between which whole fields of snow and ice were extended.
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A few steps more brought me amid huge rocks covered with moss and saxifragous plants, between which whole fields of snow and ice were extended.
Peter Schlemihl Adelbert von Chamisso 1809
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