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Chiefly American marsh plants, having usually yellow flowers
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xyris
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Xyris , the yelloweyed grasses , is a genus of flowering plants in the Yellow-eyed-grass family . The genus counts over two hundred fifty species, widespread over much of the world, with the center of distribution in the Guianas . The leaves are mostly ...
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n. (context botany English) Any member of the plant genus ''Xyris''.
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Xyris \Xy"ris\, n. [L., a kind of Iris, Gr. ?, fr. ? 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. ...