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pyxis

/pik-sis/US // ˈpɪk sɪs //UK // (ˈpɪksɪs) //

蟒蛇,蟒蛇皮,蟒蛇的故事

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural pyx·i·des [pik-si-deez]. /ˈpɪk sɪˌdiz/.

    • : Greek and Roman Antiquity. a box of a usually cylindrical shape having a lid with a knob in the center, used for toilet articles.
    • : pyx.
    • : Botany. a pyxidium.

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Examples

  • On the left is an attendant figure of a girl holding a box (pyxis).

  • On the left is the hand holding a casket (pyxis) of a woman, who had been seated at the foot of the couch.

  • Utricle (pyxis) of Amaranth, opening all round (circumscissile).

  • Pyxis, Pyxidium, a pod opening round horizontally by a lid, 124.

  • So it does in Amaranth (Fig. 387), forming a one-seeded utricular pyxis.