English dictionary: words starting with p - page 735
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Meanings of Pyx:
nounThe container in which the consecrated bread of the eucharist is kept.
Usage examples:
He wanted to restore to churches what he called ‘the real thing: vestments, pyxes, sedilia, road sc…
Meanings of Pyxes:
nounThe container in which the consecrated bread of the eucharist is kept.
Usage examples:
He wanted to restore to churches what he called ‘the real thing: vestments, pyxes, sedilia, road sc…
Meanings of Pyxidate:
adjectiveBox-like, having a lid; having the form of a pyxidium.
Meanings of Pyxides:
nounA small box or casket.
proper nounA small and inconspicuous southern constellation (the compass box or mariner's compass), lying in the milky way between vela and puppis.
adjectiveUsed with preceding greek letter or numeral to designate a star in the constellation pyxis.
Usage examples:
The star alpha pyxidis
Meanings of Pyxidia:
nounA seed capsule that splits open so that the top comes off like the lid of a box.
Meanings of Pyxidium:
nounA seed capsule that splits open so that the top comes off like the lid of a box.
Meanings of Pyxie:
nounIn 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.
Meanings of Pyxies:
nounIn 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.
Meanings of Pyxis:
nounA small box or casket.
proper nounA small and inconspicuous southern constellation (the compass box or mariner's compass), lying in the milky way between vela and puppis.
adjectiveUsed with preceding greek letter or numeral to designate a star in the constellation pyxis.
Usage examples:
The star alpha pyxidis
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