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Noun: pixie  pik-see
  1. (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
    "In the story, a pixie swapped the farmer's tools for magical ones";
    - elf, hob, gremlin, pixy, brownie, imp
     
  2. Creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas
    "Botanists searched the pine barrens for the rare pixie moss";
    - pyxie, pixy, Pyxidanthera barbulata

Type of: bush, faerie, faery, fairy, fay [archaic], shrub, sprite

Part of: genus Pyxidanthera, Pyxidanthera

Encyclopedia: Pixie