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Definition of Breakstone
1. Noun. Any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga.
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Saxifraga, Saxifraga
Specialized synonyms: Saxifraga Aizoides, Yellow Mountain Saxifrage, Fair-maids-of-france, Meadow Saxifrage, Saxifraga Granulata, Mossy Saxifrage, Saxifraga Hypnoides, Saxifraga Occidentalis, Western Saxifrage, Purple Saxifrage, Saxifraga Oppositifolia, Saxifraga Stellaris, Star Saxifrage, Starry Saxifrage, Mother-of-thousands, Saxifraga Sarmentosam, Saxifraga Stolonifera, Strawberry Geranium, Strawberry Saxifrage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breakstone
Literary usage of Breakstone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"breakstone. ' From Lat. Saxifraga, a plant that fissures a rock, understood as
moaning a ... breakstone, Parsley. Alchemilla arvensis, Scop. — Suff.; Scotl. ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"In dry fields, District of Columbia to Georgia and Tennessee and in Nova Scotia.
Naturalized or adventive from Europe. breakstone. ..."
3. Briefs on the Law of Insurance by Roger William Cooley, Lawrence Vold (1919)
"National Fire Ins. Co. of Hartford, Conn., 106 SC 467, 91 SE 732; breakstone v.
Appleton Mut. Fire Ins. Co., 149 Wis. 303, 135 NW 853; ..."
4. Annotated Consolidated Laws of the State of New York: As Amended to January by Clarence Frank Birdseye, Robert Cushing Cumming, Frank Bixby Gilbert, New York (State). (1916)
"breakstone v. Buffalo Foundry £ Machine Co. (1915), 167 App. Div. 62, 152 NY Supp.
394. The seizure and sale by a marshal, pursuant to an execution, ..."
5. The Catskills Alive! by Francine Silverman (2003)
"breakstone is the Town of Walton's largest employer, with approximately 200
employees. ... Among them are Dairylea and breakstone (Kraft, Inc. Dairy Group). ..."
6. Companion to the British and American Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeias Arranged by Lawrence T. Ashwell (1890)
"Ladies' Mantle, Parsley Piert, breakstone. Habitat, Europe, on the banks of
rivulets and borders of woods. Said to be useful in discharging small calculi ..."
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