(n) creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas, Syn.pixy, pixie, Pyxidanthera barbulata
n. [ L. pyxis a box, Gr. pyxi`s a box, especially of boxwood, fr. py`xos the box tree or boxwood. See Box a receptacle. ] [ Written also pix. ]1. (R. C. Ch.) The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. A box used in the British mint as a place of deposit for certain sample coins taken for a trial of the weight and fineness of metal before it is sent from the mint. Mushet. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. (Naut.) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]
4. (Anat.) Same as Pyxis. [ 1913 Webster ]
Pyx cloth (R. C. Ch.), a veil of silk or lace covering the pyx. -- Trial of the pyx, the annual testing, in the English mint, of the standard of gold and silver coins. Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n.; pl.Pyxidia [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, dim. a &unr_; a box. See Pyx. ] (Bot.) (a) A pod which divides circularly into an upper and lower half, of which the former acts as a kind of lid, as in the pimpernel and purslane. (b) The theca of mosses. [ 1913 Webster ]
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