saxifrage

English

(round-leaved saxifrage)

Etymology

From Old French saxifrage, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin saxifraga, from Latin saxifragus (“stone-breaking”).

Noun

saxifrage (countable and uncountable, plural saxifrages)

1. Any plant in the genus Saxifraga.

Derived terms

• alpine saxifrage
• burnet saxifrage ()
• early saxifrage ()
• golden saxifrage (Chrysosplenium spp.)
• livelong saxifrage ()
• meadow saxifrage ()
• mossy saxifrage, moss saxifrage
• pepper saxifrage ()
• strawberry saxifrage (Saxifraga stolonifera)

 

Translations

plant

• Catalan: saxífraga f
• Dutch: steenbreek (nl)
• Finnish: rikko (fi)
• French: saxifrage (fr) f
• Galician: seixebra f
• German: Steinbrech m
• Icelandic: steinbrjótur (is) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: sassifraga f
• Korean: 색소폰 (saegsopon)
• Polish: skalnica f
• Portuguese: saxífraga f
• Romanian: saxifragă (ro) f
• Russian: камнеломка (ru) f (kamnelomka)
• Spanish: saxifraga f
• Welsh: tormaen m

References

• Saxifraga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Saxifraga on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Template:commonslite
• Saxifraga at USDA Plants database

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Saxifraga at The Plant List

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French

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin saxifraga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sak.si.fʁaʒ/

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• Homophone: saxifrages

Noun

saxifrage f (plural saxifrages)

1. Saxifrage, a plant of the genus Saxifraga.

Further reading

• “saxifrage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) saxifrage

1. vocative masculine singular of saxifragus