Saxatile Definition

săksə-tīl, -tĭl
adjective
Saxicolous.
American Heritage Medicine

Saxicolous.

Webster's New World

Of or relating to rocks; living among rocks.

A saxatile plant.
Wiktionary
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Origin of Saxatile

  • Latin saxātilis from saxum rock sek- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin saxatilis, from saxum (“a rock").

    From Wiktionary

Saxatile Sentence Examples

  • Associated communities include the most extensive areas of U13 Deschampsia cespitosa Galium saxatile grassland in Britain.

  • A. saxatile (the Rock Madwort) is one of the best of yellow spring flowers, hardy in all parts of these islands.

  • A. Gemonense has the habit of A. saxatile, but larger flowers.

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