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STRAWBERRY SAXIFRAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does strawberry saxifrage mean?
• STRAWBERRY SAXIFRAGE (noun)
The noun STRAWBERRY SAXIFRAGE has 1 sense:
1. eastern Asiatic saxifrage with racemes of small red-and-white flowers; spreads by numerous creeping stolons
Familiarity information: STRAWBERRY SAXIFRAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Eastern Asiatic saxifrage with racemes of small red-and-white flowers; spreads by numerous creeping stolons
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
mother-of-thousands; Saxifraga sarmentosam; Saxifraga stolonifera; strawberry geranium; strawberry saxifrage
Hypernyms ("strawberry saxifrage" is a kind of...):
breakstone; rockfoil; saxifrage (any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga)
Holonyms ("strawberry saxifrage" is a member of...):
genus Saxifraga; Saxifraga (type genus of the Saxifragaceae; large genus of usually perennial herbs of Arctic and cool regions of northern hemisphere: saxifrage)
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