pyxidium

Noun
Synonyms: pyxis

Open English WordNet

Noun (1)pyxidia

  1. fruit of such plants as the plantain; a capsule whose upper part falls off when the seeds are releasedSynonyms: pyxisType of fruit
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Pyx·id′i·um noun; pl. Pyxidia (#).

Origin: NL., fr. Gr. …, dim. a … a box. See Pyx.

Botany (a) 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. (b) The theca of mosses.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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