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Pyxidium

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Pyxidium has 1 sense

pyxidium(n = noun.plant) pyxis - fruit of such plants as the plantain; a capsule whose upper part falls off when the seeds are released; Array

is a kind of fruit

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Pyxidium, n. [NL., fr. Gr. , dim. a a box. See Pyx.].

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. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Pyxidium, n. (pl. pyxidia) Bot. a seed-capsule with a top that comes off like the lid of a box.

Etymology

mod.L f. Gk puxidion, dimin. of puxis: see PYXIS

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