Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A creeping evergreen shrub (Pyxidanthera barbulata) having small white or pinkish flowers, native to pine barrens of the eastern United States.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A local name of the dwarf evergreen Pyxidanthera.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) Same as pixy.
WordNet 3.0
- n. creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas
Etymologies
- Shortening and alteration of New Latin Pyxidanthera, genus name : Greek puxis, puxid-, box + Greek anthera, pollen; see anther. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Edhttk01: * gives you a big hug* and you're still my pyxie because you're my best friend so there!”
“Edhttk01: well it's either chelsea or my pyxie: - P”
“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.”
“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.”
“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”
“Edhttk01: my sexy pyxie, who is a nympho and tries to attack me: oP”
“Your line of credit business may be a distributional pyxie or a twofold tubman patriarchy or semiweekly an nobelist haemal in stanhope.”
“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).”
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