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xyris
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun xyris has 1 sense
- xyris(n = noun.plant) genus xyris - chiefly American marsh plants, having usually yellow flowers; Array is a kind of liliopsid genus, monocot genus
is a member of family xyridaceae, xyridaceae, yellow-eyed grass family
CIDE DICTIONARY
xyris, n. [L., a kind of Iris, Gr. , fr. a razor.].
A genus of endogenous herbs with grassy leaves and small yellow flowers in short, scaly-bracted spikes; yellow-eyed grass. There are about seventeen species in the Atlantic United States. [1913 Webster]
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