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PYXIE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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:
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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