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chiefly American marsh plants, having usually yellow flowers

: a large genus (the type of the family Xyridaceae) of chiefly American marsh plants having mostly yellow flowers with three sepals of which the two lateral are small, keeled, and persistent and the other is membranous and spreading — see yellow-eyed grass

Xyris /zīˈris/

A genus of sedge-like plants, usu with yellow flowers, of the family Xyridaceae /zir-i-dāˈsi-ē/ and order Xyridales /-dāˈlēz/

xyridāˈceous /-shəs/ adjective

Of the Xyridaceae