{ Pix″y, 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. — Pixy stool(Bot.), a toadstool or mushroom.