? Obs. [f. STONE sb. + BREAK sb.1 (or v.), after Du. steenbreek († -breke Kilian) = G. steinbrech.] = SAXIFRAGE 1. (See also quot. 1739 and cf. BREAKSTONE.)
1548. Turner, Names Herbes, 87. The other duche saxifrage hath leaues lyke Tyme & it may be called in english Time-stonebreake.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, II. ccxcv. 693. The first is called … white Saxifrage, or white Stonebreake: The second is called golden Saxifrage, or golden Stonebreake.
1739. P. Miller, Gard. Dict., II. Index, Stone-break, see Alchymilla and Saxifraga.
1863. Prior, Plant-n., Stonebreak,… so named from its supposed power of rending rocks, and thence employed to break stone in the bladder, Saxifraga.
