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PYXIE

Dictionary entry overview: What does pyxie mean?

• PYXIE (noun)
The noun PYXIE has 1 sense:

1. creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas

Familiarity information: PYXIE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PYXIE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

pixy; Pyxidanthera barbulata; pyxie; pixie

Hypernyms ("pyxie" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches)

Holonyms ("pyxie" is a member of...):

genus Pyxidanthera; Pyxidanthera (one species: pyxie; the eastern United States)

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