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ROCKFOIL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga
Synonyms:
breakstone; rockfoil; saxifrage
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("rockfoil" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rockfoil"):
Saxifraga aizoides; yellow mountain saxifrage (tufted evergreen perennial having ciliate leaves and yellow corymbose flowers often spotted orange)
fair-maids-of-France; meadow saxifrage; Saxifraga granulata (rosette-forming perennial having compact panicles of white flowers; Europe)
mossy saxifrage; Saxifraga hypnoides (tufted or mat-forming perennial of mountains of Europe; cultivated for its white flowers)
Saxifraga occidentalis; western saxifrage (saxifrage having loose clusters of white flowers on hairy stems growing from a cluster of basal leaves; moist slopes of western North America)
purple saxifrage; Saxifraga oppositifolia (plants forming dense cushions with bright reddish-lavender flowers; rocky areas of Europe and Asia and western North America)
Saxifraga stellaris; star saxifrage; starry saxifrage (small often mat-forming alpine plant having small starlike white flowers; Europe)
mother-of-thousands; Saxifraga sarmentosam; Saxifraga stolonifera; strawberry geranium; strawberry saxifrage (eastern Asiatic saxifrage with racemes of small red-and-white flowers; spreads by numerous creeping stolons)
Holonyms ("rockfoil" 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)