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Definition of Pyxie

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

Definition of Pyxie

1. n. Same as Pixy.

Definition of Pyxie

1. an evergreen shrub [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyxie

Literary usage of Pyxie

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Travels in a Tree-top by Charles Conrad Abbott (1898)
"In dreams the pyxie had been blooming for weeks, and to prove that not all dreams go by contraries, I started on a flower-hunt. This is not always so tame ..."

2. Outing (1893)
"She was entered to compete against the Nameless and pyxie, by the same designer, and the Herreshoff fin keeler El Chico. Among the schooners from 60 to 90 ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"These flowers are sold in the streets of Philadelphia, but the pyxie is scarcely ... The pyxie belongs to a small family of exceptionally interesting plants ..."

4. Days Out of Doors by Charles Conrad Abbott (1889)
"ing, snow-white sand made a fitting background for the delicate pyxie. Straightway, on seeing this plant, I forgave the country for its want of birds. ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The pyxie belongs to the Diapensia family, very closely related to the heather tribe, and is a small, evergreen, shrubby plant, lying, cushion-like, ..."

6. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"The pyxie belongs to the Diapensia family, very closely related to the heather tribe, and is a small, evergreen, shrubby plant, lying, cushion- like, ..."

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