释义 |
stonebreak ? Obs.|ˈstəʊnbreɪk| [f. stone n. + break n.1 (or v.), after Du. steenbreek († -breke Kilian) = G. steinbrech.] = saxifrage 1. (See also quot. 1739 and cf. breakstone.)
1548Turner Names Herbes 87 The other duche saxifrage hath leaues lyke Tyme & it may be called in english Time⁓stonebreake. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. ccxcv. 693 The first is called..white Saxifrage, or white Stonebreake: The second is called golden Saxifrage, or golden Stonebreake. 1739P. Miller Gard. Dict. II. Index, Stone-break, see Alchymilla and Saxifraga. 1863Prior Plant-n., Stone⁓break,..so named from its supposed power of rending rocks, and thence employed to break stone in the bladder, Saxifraga. |