PURPLE SAXIFRAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does purple saxifrage mean? 

• PURPLE SAXIFRAGE (noun)
  The noun PURPLE SAXIFRAGE has 1 sense:

1. plants forming dense cushions with bright reddish-lavender flowers; rocky areas of Europe and Asia and western North America

  Familiarity information: PURPLE SAXIFRAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PURPLE SAXIFRAGE (noun)

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Meaning:

Plants forming dense cushions with bright reddish-lavender flowers; rocky areas of Europe and Asia and western North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

purple saxifrage; Saxifraga oppositifolia

Hypernyms ("purple saxifrage" is a kind of...):

breakstone; rockfoil; saxifrage (any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga)

Holonyms ("purple saxifrage" 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)