saxicolous
— Adjective
– English
~ growing on or living among rocks
Saxifraga oppositifolia
— Noun
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~ plants forming dense cushions with bright reddish-lavender flowers; rocky areas of Europe and Asia and western North America
Saxifraga sarmentosam
— Noun
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~ eastern Asiatic saxifrage with racemes of small red-and-white flowers; spreads by numerous creeping stolons
Saxifraga occidentalis
— Noun
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~ saxifrage having loose clusters of white flowers on hairy stems growing from a cluster of basal leaves; moist slopes of western North America
Saxifraga aizoides
— Noun
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~ tufted evergreen perennial having ciliate leaves and yellow corymbose flowers often spotted orange
Saxifraga granulata
— Noun
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~ rosette-forming perennial having compact panicles of white flowers; Europe
Saxifraga
— Noun
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~ type genus of the Saxifragaceae; large genus of usually perennial herbs of Arctic and cool regions of northern hemisphere: saxifrage
Saxifraga hypnoides
— Noun
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~ tufted or mat-forming perennial of mountains of Europe; cultivated for its white flowers
Saxifragaceae
— Noun
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~ 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
saxifrage
— Noun
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~ any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga
saxifrage family
— Noun
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~ 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
saxist
— Noun
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~ a musician who plays the saxophone
saxitoxin
— Noun
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~ a powerful neurotoxin produced by certain dinoflagellates found in red tides; it can accumulate in mollusks that feed on the dinoflagellates and cause food poisoning to humans
Saxo Grammaticus
— Noun
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~ Danish historian who chronicled the history of Denmark (including the legend of Hamlet) (1150?-1220?)
saxon
— Noun
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~ a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons; dominant in England until the Norman Conquest
Saxon
— Adjective
– English
~ of or relating to or characteristic of the early Saxons or Anglo-Saxons and their descendents (especially the English or Lowland Scots) and their language; "Saxon princes"; "for greater clarity choose a plain Saxon term instead of a latinate one"