Look up: Xyris

1. Xyris
   [n] - chiefly American marsh plants, having usually yellow flowers
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2. Xyris
   Xy'ris noun [ Latin , a kind of Iris, Greek ..., from ... a razor.] (Botany) 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.
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3. xyris
   <botany> 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. ... Origin: L, a kind of Iris, Gr, fr. A razor. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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4. Xyris
   genus Xyris noun chiefly American marsh plants, having usually yellow flowers
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5. Xyris
   • (n.) 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.
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6. Xyris
   Xyris Yellow-eyed-grass from Greek xyron, 'razor', with reference to a plant that has two-edged leaves.
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7. Xyris
   `Xyris` is the botanical name of a genus of flowering plants in the Yellow-eyed-grass family. The genus counts over two hundred fifty species, with the center of distribution in the Guianas. The leaves are mostly distichous, linear, flat and thin or round with a conspicuous sheath at the base...
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