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xyris |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Xyris \Xy"ris\, n. [L., a kind of Iris, Gr ?, fr ? a razor.] (Bot.) 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Xyris n : chiefly American marsh plants, having usually yellow flowers [syn: {Xyris}, {genus Xyris}]
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