Xyris

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Xyris \Xy"ris\, n. [L., a kind of Iris, Gr. ?, fr. ? a razor.]
     (Bot.)
     A genus of endogenous herbs with grassy leaves and small
     yellow flowers in short, scaly-bracted spikes; yellow-eyed
     grass. There are about seventeen species in the Atlantic
     United States.


     [1913 Webster] Xyst

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Xyris
       n : chiefly American marsh plants, having usually yellow flowers
           [syn: {genus Xyris}]