{ } n.; pl.Pixies [ For Pucksy, from Puck. ] 1. An old English name for a fairy; an elf. [ Written also picksy. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
Pixy ring, a fairy ring or circle. [ Prov. Eng. ] -- Pixy stool (Bot.), a toadstool or mushroom. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
(n) (computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot), Syn. pel, picture element, Example:the greater the number of pixels per inch the greater the resolution
(n) creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas, Syn. pixy, pixie, Pyxidanthera barbulata
[福寿螺 / 福壽螺, fú shòu luóㄈㄨˊ ㄕㄡˋ ㄌㄨㄛˊ] giant Amazon snail (Ampullaria gigas spix), that has devastated rice paddies in China since its introduction in the 1980s