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pyxis


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pyxis  \Pyx*is\,  n.  [L.] 
  1.  A  box;  a  pyx. 
 
  2.  (Bot.)  A  pyxidium. 
 
  3.  (Anat.)  The  acetabulum.  See  {Acetabulum},  2. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pyxis 
  n  :  a  small  box  used  by  ancient  Greeks  to  hold  medicines 




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