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saxifragous

saxifragous adjective: dissolving bladder stones.

Adjective

saxifragous (comparative more saxifragous, superlative most saxifragous)

  1. (obsolete) Dissolving bladder stones.
    • 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.1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Enquries into very many received tenets and commonly presumed truths
    • I have six or seven Instances more, ... which will make such a Saxifragous Dose, that no scruple can stand before it.1677, William Hughes, The man of sin: or a discourse of popery
  2. (rare) Growing in rocky crevices.

Forms of saxifragous

comparativemore saxifragous
superlativemost saxifragous

Origin of saxifragous

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

Questions about saxifragous

What does saxifragous mean?
Saxifragous means dissolving bladder stones.
What part of speech is saxifragous?
Saxifragous is an adjective.

Words near saxifragous in the dictionary

  1. saxifragal
  2. saxifragalean
  3. saxifrage
  4. saxifrages
  5. saxifragine
  6. saxifragous
  7. saxifrax
  8. saxify
  9. saxigenous
  10. Saxilby
  11. Saxilby with Ingleby

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