Xy´ris
| n. | 1. | (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. |
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| Noun | 1. |  Xyris - chiefly American marsh plants, having usually yellow flowersliliopsid genus, monocot genus - genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed family Xyridaceae, Xyridaceae, yellow-eyed grass family - plants of tropical to temperate regions; usually in wet places yellow-eyed grass - any of several rushlike plants, especially of the pine barrens of southern United States |
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