資料來源 : pyDict
妖精,小鬼淘氣的,惡作劇的
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.]
資料來源 : WordNet®
pixy
n 1: creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves
and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens
of New Jersey and the Carolinas [syn: {pyxie}, {pixie},
{Pyxidanthera barbulata}]
2: (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous [syn: {elf},
{hob}, {gremlin}, {pixie}, {brownie}, {imp}]