Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SAX'I-FRAGE, n. [L. saxifraga; composed of saxum, a stone, and frango, to break.]

A medicine that has the property of breaking or dissolving the stone in the bladder. But in botany, the anglification of Saxifraga, a genus of plants of many species. The burnet saxifrage is of the genus Pimpinella; the golden saxifrage is of the genus Chrysosplenium; the meadow saxifrage is of the genus Peucedanum. – Encyc.