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saxifragous

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Dissolving bladder stones.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

Topics: medicine, sciences

Examples

  • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Enquries into very many received tenets and commonly presumed truths it came to be ordered that the Goat should be fed with saxifragous herbes, and such as are conceived of power to breake the stone.
  • 1677, William Hughes, The man of sin: or a discourse of popery I have six or seven Instances more, ... which will make such a Saxifragous Dose, that no scruple can stand before it.

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adj

Meaning 2

Growing in rocky crevices.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare

Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences

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History

Etymology

Latin saxifragus (“stone-breaking”), from saxum (“stone”) + frangere (“to break”).