Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pixie"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pixie
n 1: (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous [syn: {elf},
{hob}, {gremlin}, {pixy}, {brownie}, {imp}]
2: 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}, {pixy}, {Pyxidanthera
barbulata}]
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