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.)
| 1548 Turner Names Herbes 87 The other duche saxifrage hath leaues lyke Tyme & it may be called in english Time⁓stonebreake. 1597 Gerarde Herbal ii. ccxcv. 693 The first is called..white Saxifrage, or white Stonebreake: The second is called golden Saxifrage, or golden Stonebreake. 1739 P. Miller Gard. Dict. II. Index, Stone-break, see Alchymilla and Saxifraga. 1863 Prior Plant-n., Stone⁓break,..so named from its supposed power of rending rocks, and thence employed to break stone in the bladder, Saxifraga. |