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.
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin < Greek pyxís a box
1680–90; < Latin < Greek pyxís a box, pyx
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The marriage is celebrated here in a pyxis attributed to the Meleager Painter.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2010
A girl with a pyxis stands on the left behind the throne.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.
On the Dodwell pyxis of 650 to 620 B.C., a man wears an oval shield, covering him from the base of the neck to the ankles.
From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew
All except the pyxis are decorated with painted figures, and contain flowers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
Pyxidata means made like a box, from pyxis, a box.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
The Pyxis Ocean tested the British-designed WindWings for six months.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2024
Sails have powered boats for millennia - but the type of sails trialled on the Pyxis Ocean are different to those normally seen on wind-powered vessels.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2024
Normally, the Pyxis Ocean will use fuel, but it aims to use far less by letting the wind help out.
From NewsForKids.net ● Sep. 6, 2023
The tanker was the Dubai-managed Pyxis Delta and the crew member killed was a Filipino, security firm AKE said.
From Reuters ● Feb. 14, 2013
In the Testudinidae the African Kinixys has a movable hinge on the posterior part of the carapace and Pyxis arachnoides of Madagascar has a short, hinged, anterior plastral lobe.
From Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by Legler, John M.
Repeated outbursts have not, in the case of T Pyxidis, destroyed the star, because it has gone through this process three times in the past thirty years.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck
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