pyxien.

Brit.

/ˈpɪksi/, U.S.

/ˈpɪksi/

Forms: 1800s– pyxie, 1900s– pixie, 1900s– pixy.

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: Latin Pyxidanthera.

Etymology: Shortened < scientific Latin Pyxidanthera, genus name ( A. Michaux Flora Boreali-Americana (1803) I. 152; < Hellenistic Greek πυξίδιον small box (see pyxidium n.) + ancient Greek ἀνθηρά , feminine of ἀνθηρός flowery (compare scientific Latin anthera anther: see anther n.)): see -y suffix⁶.In forms pixie , pixy apparently after pixie n. (compare quot. 1914).

U.S.

In full pyxie moss. A prostrate, mosslike evergreen shrub, Pyxidanthera barbulata (family Diapensiaceae), which bears numerous tiny white or pink flowers and is found in the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas. Also called pine-barren beauty, flowering moss.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > climbing, trailing, or creeping shrubs > [noun] > non-British

Paullinia1753

Pothos1754

corchorus1759

water vine1774

cobaea1805

bush-rope1814

combretum1819

kerria1823

pishamin1826

guarana1838

stephanotis1843

lapageria1849

pear-withe1864

waw-waw1864

Bougainvillaea1866

pyxie1882

pine-barren beauty1883

Madagascar jasmine1884

streptosolen1938

1882 Harper's Mag. June 65 Among her [sc. Nature's] treasures is the delicate pyxie..a little prostrate trailing evergreen.

1892 Amer. Folk-Lore 5 100 Pyxidanthera barbulata, pyxie moss.

1914 Steven's Point (Wisc.) Jrnl. 13 Apr. 1/4 So the story goes, a beautiful flowering moss sprang up wherever a certain fairy stepped. Hence the name pixie, or fairy moss.

1951 E. W. Teale North with Spring xxviii. 276 I came upon a dense mass of pyxie moss,..across which a host of tiny waxy-white flowers were scattered.

1973 B. Robichaud & M. F. Buell Vegetation of New Jersey xii. 217 The most commonly known of these [pine-barren plants] include the turkey-beard, pyxie moss, goat's-rue, [etc.].

2003 Newsday (N.Y.) (Nexis) 10 Aug. n7 Both habitat loss and historical scarcity play into the plight of Pyxie moss, a white-flowered plant that grows in low mats along the sheltered side of sand dunes.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pyxie
释义	pyxien. Brit. /ˈpɪksi/, U.S. /ˈpɪksi/ Forms: 1800s– pyxie, 1900s– pixie, 1900s– pixy. Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: Latin Pyxidanthera. Etymology: Shortened < scientific Latin Pyxidanthera, genus name ( A. Michaux Flora Boreali-Americana (1803) I. 152; < Hellenistic Greek πυξίδιον small box (see pyxidium n.) + ancient Greek ἀνθηρά , feminine of ἀνθηρός flowery (compare scientific Latin anthera anther: see anther n.)): see -y suffix⁶.In forms pixie , pixy apparently after pixie n. (compare quot. 1914). U.S. In full pyxie moss. A prostrate, mosslike evergreen shrub, Pyxidanthera barbulata (family Diapensiaceae), which bears numerous tiny white or pink flowers and is found in the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas. Also called pine-barren beauty, flowering moss. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > climbing, trailing, or creeping shrubs > [noun] > non-British Paullinia1753 Pothos1754 corchorus1759 water vine1774 cobaea1805 bush-rope1814 combretum1819 kerria1823 pishamin1826 guarana1838 stephanotis1843 lapageria1849 pear-withe1864 waw-waw1864 Bougainvillaea1866 pyxie1882 pine-barren beauty1883 Madagascar jasmine1884 streptosolen1938 1882 Harper's Mag. June 65 Among her [sc. Nature's] treasures is the delicate pyxie..a little prostrate trailing evergreen. 1892 Amer. Folk-Lore 5 100 Pyxidanthera barbulata, pyxie moss. 1914 Steven's Point (Wisc.) Jrnl. 13 Apr. 1/4 So the story goes, a beautiful flowering moss sprang up wherever a certain fairy stepped. Hence the name pixie, or fairy moss. 1951 E. W. Teale North with Spring xxviii. 276 I came upon a dense mass of pyxie moss,..across which a host of tiny waxy-white flowers were scattered. 1973 B. Robichaud & M. F. Buell Vegetation of New Jersey xii. 217 The most commonly known of these [pine-barren plants] include the turkey-beard, pyxie moss, goat's-rue, [etc.]. 2003 Newsday (N.Y.) (Nexis) 10 Aug. n7 Both habitat loss and historical scarcity play into the plight of Pyxie moss, a white-flowered plant that grows in low mats along the sheltered side of sand dunes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1882
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