saxifrage : Idioms & Phrases

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Burnet saxifrage

  • . (Bot.) See Saxifrage.
  • a European umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella Saxifraga).
Webster 1913

Golden saxifrage

  • noun any of various low aquatic herbs of the genus Chrysosplenium
    golden spleen.
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  • a low half-sacculent herb (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium) growing in rivulets in Europe; also, C. Americanum, common in the United States. See also under Golden.
  • (Bot.), a low herb with yellow flowers (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium), blossoming in wet places in early spring.
Webster 1913

leatherleaf saxifrage

  • noun plant with basal leathery elliptic leaves and erect leafless flower stalks each bearing a dense roundish cluster of tiny white flowers; moist places of northwestern North America to Oregon and Idaho
    Leptarrhena pyrolifolia.
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Meadow saxifrage

  • noun rosette-forming perennial having compact panicles of white flowers; Europe
    fair-maids-of-France; Saxifraga granulata.
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  • (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant of Europe (Silaus pratensis), somewhat resembling fennel.
Webster 1913

Meadow saxifrage, or Pepper saxifrage

  • . See under Meadow.
Webster 1913

mossy saxifrage

  • noun tufted or mat-forming perennial of mountains of Europe; cultivated for its white flowers
    Saxifraga hypnoides.
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purple saxifrage

  • noun plants forming dense cushions with bright reddish-lavender flowers; rocky areas of Europe and Asia and western North America
    Saxifraga oppositifolia.
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saxifrage family

  • noun a large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs; widely distributed in northern temperate and cold regions; sometimes includes genera of the family Hydrangeaceae
    Saxifragaceae; family Saxifragaceae.
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star saxifrage

  • noun small often mat-forming alpine plant having small starlike white flowers; Europe
    Saxifraga stellaris; star saxifrage.
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starry saxifrage

  • noun small often mat-forming alpine plant having small starlike white flowers; Europe
    Saxifraga stellaris; star saxifrage.
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strawberry saxifrage

  • noun eastern Asiatic saxifrage with racemes of small red-and-white flowers; spreads by numerous creeping stolons
    Saxifraga sarmentosam; mother-of-thousands; Saxifraga stolonifera; strawberry geranium.
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western saxifrage

  • noun saxifrage having loose clusters of white flowers on hairy stems growing from a cluster of basal leaves; moist slopes of western North America
    Saxifraga occidentalis.
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yellow mountain saxifrage

  • noun tufted evergreen perennial having ciliate leaves and yellow corymbose flowers often spotted orange
    Saxifraga aizoides.
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