SAXIFRAGA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Saxifraga mean? 

• SAXIFRAGA (noun)
  The noun SAXIFRAGA has 1 sense:

1. type genus of the Saxifragaceae; large genus of usually perennial herbs of Arctic and cool regions of northern hemisphere: saxifrage

  Familiarity information: SAXIFRAGA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAXIFRAGA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of the Saxifragaceae; large genus of usually perennial herbs of Arctic and cool regions of northern hemisphere: saxifrage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Saxifraga; Saxifraga

Hypernyms ("Saxifraga" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Saxifraga"):

breakstone; rockfoil; saxifrage (any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga)

Saxifraga aizoides; yellow mountain saxifrage (tufted evergreen perennial having ciliate leaves and yellow corymbose flowers often spotted orange)

fair-maids-of-France; meadow saxifrage; Saxifraga granulata (rosette-forming perennial having compact panicles of white flowers; Europe)

mossy saxifrage; Saxifraga hypnoides (tufted or mat-forming perennial of mountains of Europe; cultivated for its white flowers)

Saxifraga occidentalis; western saxifrage (saxifrage having loose clusters of white flowers on hairy stems growing from a cluster of basal leaves; moist slopes of western North America)

purple saxifrage; Saxifraga oppositifolia (plants forming dense cushions with bright reddish-lavender flowers; rocky areas of Europe and Asia and western North America)

Saxifraga stellaris; star saxifrage; starry saxifrage (small often mat-forming alpine plant having small starlike white flowers; Europe)

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

Holonyms ("Saxifraga" is a member of...):

family Saxifragaceae; Saxifragaceae; saxifrage family (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)

 Context examples 

The plants producing vaterite were from the section of Saxifraga called Porphyrion.

(Rare mineral discovered in plants for first time, University of Cambridge)

As well as producing vaterite, Saxifraga scardica has a special tissue surrounding the leaf edge that appears to deflect light from the edge into the leaf.

(Rare mineral discovered in plants for first time, University of Cambridge)

Further to this, it appears that although many species in this section produced vaterite along with calcite, there was at least one species, Saxifraga sempervivum, that was producing pure vaterite.

(Rare mineral discovered in plants for first time, University of Cambridge)

Scientists at Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University have found that the mineral vaterite, a form (polymorph) of calcium carbonate, is a dominant component of the protective silvery-white crust that forms on the leaves of a number of alpine plants, which are part of the Garden’s national collection of European Saxifraga species.

(Rare mineral discovered in plants for first time, University of Cambridge)