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Definition of Saxicoline
1. Adjective. Growing on or living among rocks.
Partainyms: Saxicolous Plant, Saxicolous Plant, Saxicolous Plant
Definition of Saxicoline
1. a. Stone- inhabiting; pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, the stonechats.
Definition of Saxicoline
1. Adjective. saxicolous ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Saxicoline
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Saxicoline
Literary usage of Saxicoline
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Genera Lichenum: An Arrangement of the North American Lichens by Edward Tuckerman (1872)
"But the difficulty in distinguishing generically the saxicoline and ... of the
island of Cuba (Mr. Wright) what might well be taken for a saxicoline Porina, ..."
2. The Smaller British Birds: With Descriptions of Their Nests, Eggs, Habits, Etc. by Henry B. Adams (1894)
"The two Accentors or Chanters, are the only British representatives of a genus
of the saxicoline family, and they, like all the rest of the group, ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"... but in which there are from eight to sixteen spores in a spore-case ; and a
parasitic lichen on the thallus of a saxicoline Pertusaria which appears to ..."
4. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1907)
"They may be arboreal, terrestrial, or saxicoline; frugivorous or insectivorous—though
many kinds feed both upon fruits and berries and insects; ..."
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