saxifragous

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Dissolving bladder stones. obsolete
    — 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.
  2. Growing in rocky crevices. rare

词形变化

more saxifragous comparative most saxifragous superlative

词源

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