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saxifragus

saxifragus · adj

stone-breaking

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Where it lives

De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

saxĭfrăgus — Lewis & Short

saxĭfrăgus, a, um, adj.saxum-frango,

I stone-breaking, stone-crushing: undae maris, Enn. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 42, 167 (Ann. v. 564 Vahl.): adiantum, so called because it breaks or dissolves the stone in the bladder, Plin. 22, 21, 30, § 64; also, herba, Ser. Samm. 32, 602; App. Herb. 67.—Absol. (sc. herba), Veg. 1, 13, 5; 6, 11, 1 al.

In the wild

saxifragum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.21.p6
saxifraga Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.22.p32
saxifragis Cicero, De Oratore 3.167

Where it came from

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