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n. Botany A capsule dehiscing transversely by a lid that falls off to release the seeds.

n. A small box

n. : A capsule in which the lid separates from the top of the fruit; a pyxidium

n. A nautical compass

n. A box; a pyx.

n. A pyxidium.

n. The acetabulum. See Acetabulum, 2.

n. In Greek antiquity and archaeology, a type of cylindrical vase or box with a cover, used especially by women, as for the toilet. See cut in preceding column.

n. A box; a jewel-case.

n. In anatomy, the cotyloid cavity, or acetabulum of the hip-joint.

n. [capitalized] A genus of brachiopods

n. [capitalized] In conchology, a genus of gastropods.

n. [capitalized] A genus of land-tortoises of the family Testudinidæ, having the anterior part of the plastron so movable that it can be shut like the lid of a pyxis.

n. A tortoise of this genus, the only known species, Pyxis arachnoidea, of Madagascar and Mauritius. Its shell is yellow, with broad black bands radiating from the center of the dorsal shields.

n. [capitalized] In entomology, a genus of coleopterous insects.

n. In botany: A seed-vessel, commonly a capsule, with a circumscissile dehiscence, the top falling away like a lid, as in the common purslane and plantain, and in the fruit known as monkey-pots. See Lecythis, and cut under circumscissile.

n. The theca of mosses. Also pyxidium.

n. In old arms and armor, an engine-of-war: probably the same as culverin, the early form of cannon.

n. fruit of such plants as the plantain; a capsule whose upper part falls off when the seeds are released

n. a small box used by ancient Greeks to hold medicines

n. a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Puppis and Antlia

"Ear-rings in various shapes, necklaces in numerous rows, bracelets in the forms of hoops or snakes for the upper and lower arms, and various other trinkets v. 'ere in great request, and were kept in a species of casket or box, called pyxis, from the name of the wood of which it was orignaliy made; and these caskets, as Avell as the small oval hand mirrors of metal,"

fruit    box    constellation   

pyxis nautica   

pyxides    acetabulum   

box    pyx    pyxidium