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A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Puppis and Antlia
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pyxis
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According to traditional Chinese uranography , the modern constellation Pyxis is located within the southern quadrant of the sky, which is symbolized as the Vermilion Bird of the South (南方朱雀, Nán Fāng Zhū Què ). The name of the western constellation in ...
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Pyxis \Pyx*is\, n. [L.] A box; a pyx. (Bot.) A pyxidium. (Anat.) The acetabulum. See Acetabulum , 2.
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n. 1 A small box 2 (context botany English): A capsule in which the lid separates from the top of the fruit to release the seeds; a pyxidium 3 A nautical compass 4 (context Christianity English): The box in which ashes are stored for Ash Wednesday 5 (label ...
Usage examples of pyxis.
Phoenix system, where we stop briefly to pick up additional supplies before we head to Beta Pyxis III, where you will begin your training.
Beta Pyxis III, one week from now, you will have only one command objective.
All these questions will be answered soon, as you begin your training on Beta Pyxis III.
This time, he had a backdrop: Beta Pyxis III floated behind him, a massive marble streaked with blue, white, green and brown.
Beta Pyxis is twenty-two hours thirteen minutes twenty-four seconds long.
Gandre Li had seen several patrolships on their way into the sector, explaining why there were so many raiders now in Pyxis, the neighboring sector they left behind.
They had rushed all the way from outer Pyxis to the sector in the heart of the region.