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A small box used by ancient Greeks to hold medicines
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pyxis
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. fruit of such plants as the plantain; a capsule whose upper part falls off when the seeds are released [syn: pyxidium ] a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Puppis and Antlia a small box used by ancient Greeks to hold medicines [also: pyxides ...
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A pyxis (, plural pyxides ) is a shape of vessel from the classical world, usually a cylindrical box with a separate lid. Originally mostly used by women to hold cosmetics, trinkets or jewellery, surviving pyxides are mostly Greek pottery , but especially ...
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pyxis \Pyx*is\, n. [L.] A box; a pyx. (Bot.) A pyxidium. (Anat.) The acetabulum. See Acetabulum , 2.
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.