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Webster 1913 Edition
Xyris
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Xy′ris
,Noun.
[L., a kind of Iris, Gr. [GREEK], fr. [GREEK] 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.
Definition 2024
Xyris
Xyris
See also: xyris
Translingual
Proper noun
Xyris f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Xyridaceae – flowering plants with small yellow flowers.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, monocots, commelinids - clades; Poales - order; Xyridaceae - family
Derived terms
- Xyridales (obsolete)