'Xyris' definitions:
Definition of 'Xyris'
From: WordNet
noun
Chiefly American marsh plants, having usually yellow flowers [syn: Xyris, genus Xyris]
Definition of 'Xyris'
From: 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