PYXIE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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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

Synonyms:

pixie; pixy; Pyxidanthera barbulata; pyxie

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

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

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

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