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PYXIDANTHERA BARBULATA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pyxidanthera barbulata mean? 

PYXIDANTHERA BARBULATA (noun)
  The noun PYXIDANTHERA BARBULATA has 1 sense:

1. creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinasplay

  Familiarity information: PYXIDANTHERA BARBULATA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PYXIDANTHERA BARBULATA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

pixie; pixy; Pyxidanthera barbulata; pyxie

Hypernyms ("Pyxidanthera barbulata" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("Pyxidanthera barbulata" is a member of...):

genus Pyxidanthera; Pyxidanthera (one species: pyxie; the eastern United States)


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