saxifrage

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

- n Saxifrage (Bot) Any plant of the genus Saxifraga, mostly perennial herbs growing in crevices of rocks in mountainous regions.
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

- n saxifrage A plant of the genus Saxifraga. Scarcely any of the species have economic properties, but many are beautiful in foliage and flower. They are commonly rock-plants with tufted leaves and panicles of white, yellow, or red flowers. They are predominantly alpine, and of alpine plants they are the most easy to cultivate. One group, as S. hypnoides, has mossy foliage, forming a carpet, in spring dotted with white flowers. Others, as S. Aizoon, have the foliage silvery, in rosettes. Others, as S. umbrosa, the London-pride or none-so-pretty, and S. oppositifolia, the purple saxifrage, afford brilliant colored flowers. A leathery-leafed group is represented by the Siberian S. crassifolia, well known in cultivation. A common house-plant is S. sarmentosa, the beefsteak- or strawberry-geranium (see geranium,) also called sailor-plant, creeping-sailor, and Chinese saxifrage. S. Virginiensis is a common spring flower in eastern North America.
- n saxifrage See meadow-saxifrage.
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

- n Saxifrage sak′si-frāj a genus of plants of the natural order Saxifrageæ or Saxifragaceæ, its species chiefly mountain and rock plants
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

L. saxifraga, from saxifragus, stone-breaking; saxum, rock + frangere, to break: cf. F. saxifrage,. See Fracture, and cf. Sassafras Saxon

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

Fr.,—L. saxum, a stone, frangĕre, to break.

Some perennials, such as Pinks, Carnations, Saxifrages, etc., do not die down, but retain their leaves.

"Gardening for the Million" by Alfred Pink

Already have the stones fulfilled their purpose, and the ivy, the brier, and the saxifrage have found a home amongst them.

"Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXIX." by Various

The white stars of the saxifrage appeared in the woods; the white daisies were in the grass.

"Macleod of Dare" by William Black

His present ambition is to grow every possible saxifrage.

"Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences Vol 2 (of 2)" by James Marchant

In addition to the plants mentioned above, hardy ferns grow well, and so do lilies of the valley, and stonecrops and saxifrages.

"What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes" by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Ivy, saxifrage and wild roses vie with each other in concealing the ruins.

"A Struggle for Rome, v. 1" by Felix Dahn

I'm afraid I did some damage to the bulbs as well as myself, but you had told me that the saxifrages were partial to boots.

"Lady Cassandra" by Mrs George de Horne Vaizey

I gave her some of that new saxifrage I raised.

"Plashers Mead" by Compton Mackenzie

It's a piece of saxifrage.

"The Third Class at Miss Kaye's" by Angela Brazil

But our approach to the home of the saxifrage is not to be accomplished without toil, in weather which is a succession of boisterous squalls.

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