Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Either of two creeping prostrate evergreen plants (Pyxidanthera barbulata or P. brevifolia) having small white or pinkish flowers, native to the eastern United States.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A local name of the dwarf evergreen Pyxidanthera.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) Same as pixy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Shortening and alteration of New Latin Pyxidanthera, genus name : Greek puxis, puxid-, box + Greek anthera, pollen; see anther.]

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Examples

  • Edhttk01: * gives you a big hug* and you're still my pyxie because you're my best friend so there!

    pyxopotamus Diary Entry pyxopotamus 2002

  • Edhttk01: well it's either chelsea or my pyxie: - P

    pyxopotamus Diary Entry pyxopotamus 2002

  • Edhttk01 (6: 57: 19 AM): my thoughts were always with you. even before all this. .you were my best friend. ~*gives you a kiss*~ my pyxie.

    pyxopotamus Diary Entry pyxopotamus 2002

  • Edhttk01 (6: 55: 45 AM): pyxie ... all you have to do is look in your heart and you will know i do. cause you find me! i'm always with you.

    pyxopotamus Diary Entry pyxopotamus 2002

  • Edhttk01 (6: 46: 33 AM): well your my pyxie. .sometimes i think your the only one who believes i can get this story off the ground

    pyxopotamus Diary Entry pyxopotamus 2002

  • Edhttk01: my sexy pyxie, who is a nympho and tries to attack me: oP

    pyxopotamus Diary Entry pyxopotamus 2002

  • Your line of credit business may be a distributional pyxie or a twofold tubman patriarchy or semiweekly an nobelist haemal in stanhope.

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  • Edhttk01: * gives you a big hug goodnight* nite my pyxie. yesterday he called and woke me up from a dream which involved him. he was very angry, yelling that he didn't love me anymore; thusly i should leave him alone forever. then at that point the phone rings. he thanked me for the vampire hunter d soundtracks, called me his pyxie twice, and had he been within my range, i would have thrown something sharp (i.e. a knife) into something vulnerable (i.e. his chest).

    pyxopotamus Diary Entry pyxopotamus 2002

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