Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The meadow-saxifrage, Saxifraga granulata: so called from the virtue, according to the doctrine of signatures, of its pebble-like bulbs against calculus. The name is also a general equivalent of saxifrage.
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Examples
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Daddy, have you any stone-break grass? 'he asked after a pause.
The Cossacks Leo Tolstoy 1869
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Anyhow next morning come in good time, and where the fence is broken there you'll find the stone-break grass lying.
The Cossacks Leo Tolstoy 1869
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Well, she'll come, go round it, and then will go off to find the stone-break grass and will bring some along and destroy the fence.
The Cossacks Leo Tolstoy 1869
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Anyhow next morning come in good time, and where the fence is broken there you’ll find the stone-break grass lying.
The Cossacks 2003
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Well, she’ll come, go round it, and then will go off to find the stone-break grass and will bring some along and destroy the fence.
The Cossacks 2003
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Daddy, have you any stone-break grass?’ he asked after a pause.
The Cossacks 2003
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