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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas;
[syn: pyxie, pixie, pixy, Pyxidanthera barbulata]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pixy \Pix"y\, Pixie \Pix"ie\, n.; pl. Pixies. [For Pucksy, from Puck.] 1. An old English name for a fairy; an elf. [Written also picksy.] [1913 Webster] 2. (Bot.) A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring. [1913 Webster] Pixy ring, a fairy ring or circle. [Prov. Eng.] Pixy stool (Bot.), a toadstool or mushroom. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Pyxidanthera barbulata n 1: creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas [syn: pyxie, pixie, pixy, Pyxidanthera barbulata]