Definitions for Pyxis

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Pyxis pyx·is

Spelling: [pik-sis]

IPA: /ˈpɪk sɪs/

Pyxis is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in Pyxis (ipsxy).

Definitions for Pyxis

noun

1. Greek and Roman Antiquity. a box of a usually cylindrical shape having a lid with a knob in the center, used for toilet articles.
2. pyx (def 1).
3. Botany. a pyxidium.
4. the Compass, a southern constellation: one of the subordinate constellations into which Argo is now divided.

Origin of Pyxis

1350-1400; Middle English Latin Greek pyxís a box

Examples for Pyxis

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

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

The pyxis was used by women at their toilet, and the lekythos, alabastron and askos for oil and unguents.

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

pyxis, Pyxidium, a pod opening round horizontally by a lid, 124.