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Noun: pyxie  pik-see
  1. 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 pyxie moss";
    - pixie, pixy, Pyxidanthera barbulata

Derived forms: pyxies

Type of: bush, shrub

Part of: genus Pyxidanthera, Pyxidanthera

Encyclopedia: Pyxie