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PYXIDIUM (pyxidia)
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Irregular inflected form: pyxidia
Dictionary entry overview: What does pyxidium mean?
• PYXIDIUM (noun)
The noun PYXIDIUM has 1 sense:
1. fruit of such plants as the plantain; a capsule whose upper part falls off when the seeds are released
Familiarity information: PYXIDIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fruit of such plants as the plantain; a capsule whose upper part falls off when the seeds are released
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
pyxidium; pyxis
Hypernyms ("pyxidium" is a kind of...):
fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)
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