pyxidate, a. Bot.
(ˈpɪksɪdeɪt)
[ad. mod.L. pyxidāt-us, f. pyxis, pyxidem box: see -ate2 2.]
Having the form of a pyxis or pyxidium: opening, as a capsule, with a transverse slit; also, bearing pyxidia. Also, in same sense, ˈpyxidated a.
| 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Heath-moss, These [varieties of cup-mosses] are but very lightly pixidated, and the first of the two scarce distinguishably so. 1858 Mayne Expos. Lex., Pyxidatus, having the form of a little box, as Scyphorus pyxidatus: pyxidate. 1897 in Syd. Soc. Lex. |