Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

saxifragous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sax-ifragous
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Dissolving bladder stones.

Obsolete

adj

Growing in rocky crevices.

Example Sentences

"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."
"1677, William Hughes, The man of sin: or a discourse of popery I have six or seven Instances more, ... which will make such a Saxifragous Dose, that no scruple can stand before it."

Etymology

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

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more saxifragous (comparative) most saxifragous (superlative)

Questions

What does saxifragous mean?: Dissolving bladder stones.
Where does saxifragous come from?: Latin saxifragus (“stone-breaking”), from saxum (“stone”) + frangere (“to break”).

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