creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas
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Pixy \Pix"y\, Pixie \Pix"ie\, n.; pl. {Pixies}. [For Pucksy, from Puck.] 1. An old English name for a fairy; an elf. [Written also {picksy}.]
2. (Bot.) A low creeping evergreen plant ({Pyxidanthera barbulata}), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring.
{Pixy ring}, a fairy ring or circle. [Prov. Eng.]
{Pixy stool} (Bot.), a toadstool or mushroom. [Prov. Eng.]
Sometimes her scheduling also displays a pixie sense of humor. One night last year offered a TNT triple-feature: "He Couldn't Say No," "She Couldn't Say No," and "She Had to Say Yes." "She's just magic," Hogan says.
The precocious pixie who plays Molly, Asia Vieira, just beams when she's around Ms. Keaton.
The minister was wearing a variety of sports equipment, including streamlined pixie shoes borrowed from the British cycling squad. 'Hurry up, Julian,' he shouted at his secretary as Julian served mineral water.
"I admit to being a bit of pixie now and then," he says.