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PYXIS
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Irregular inflected form: pyxides
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small box used by ancient Greeks to hold medicines
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("pyxis" is a kind of...):
box (a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Puppis and Antlia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
constellation (a configuration of stars as seen from the earth)
Holonyms ("Pyxis" is a part of...):
Argo (formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between Canis Major and the Southern Cross; now divided into Carina and Pyxis and Puppis and Vela)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Fruit of such plants as the plantain; a capsule whose upper part falls off when the seeds are released
Synonyms:
pyxidium; pyxis
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pyxis" is a kind of...):
fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)
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