||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.

||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.