Found 2 items, similar to Xyris.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: Xyris Xyris n : chiefly American marsh plants, having usually yellow flowers [syn: genus Xyris]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Xyris 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]