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pyxie

py·xie

uncommon archaic

noun

1.

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

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Origin

Shortening of taxonomic name Pyxidanthera.

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