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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
n
1: fruit of such plants as the plantain; a capsule whose upper part falls off when the seeds are released [syn: pyxidium, pyxis]
Oxford Reference Dictionary
n. (pl. pyxidia) Bot. a seed-capsule with a top that comes off like the lid of a box. Etymology: mod.L f. Gk puxidion, dimin. of puxis: see PYXIS
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Pyxidium Pyx*id"i*um, n.; pl. Pyxidia. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, dim. a ? a box. See Pyx.] (Bot.) (a) 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. (b) The theca of mosses.
