xyris Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun chiefly American marsh plants, having usually yellow flowers
    genus Xyris.

WordNet

Xy"ris noun
Etymology
L., a kind of Iris, Gr. , fr. a razor.
Definitions
  1. (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.

Webster 1913