An old English name for a fairy; an elf. (Written also picksy)
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(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.)
...pixie-led if we gather the white stitchwort!" said Mavis. "They're the pixies' flowers, so Mrs. Penruddock told me! It's a very old ... — Monitress Merle • Angela Brazil
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