| pyx | 1. The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved. 2. A box used in the British mint as a place of deposit for certain sample coins taken for a trial of the weight and fineness of metal before it is sent from the mint. 3. The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle. 4. <anatomy> Same as Pyxis. Pyx cloth, a veil of silk or lace covering the pyx. Trial of the pyx, the annual testing, in the English mint, of the standard of gold and silver coins. Alternative forms: pix. Origin: L. Pyxis a box, Gr. A box, especially of boxwood, fr. The box tree or boxwood. (22 Aug 1998) |
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| pyxidium | <botany> 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. The theca of mosses. Origin: NL, fr. Gr, dim. A a box. See Pyx. (22 Aug 1998) |
| pyxis | 1. A box; a pyx. 2. <botany> A pyxidium. 3. <anatomy> The acetabulum. Origin: L. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pyxle | <botany> Same as Pixy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |