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pachysandra

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • CMU ARPABET: P AE2 CH IH0 S AE1 N D R AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

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noun

Meaning 1

A genus, Pachysandra, of four or five species of evergreen shrubs or subshrubs, belonging to the boxwood family, Buxaceae, used ornamentally as groundcover.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences

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noun

Meaning 2

any plant of the genus Pachysandra; low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: subshrub, suffrutex

Narrower terms: Allegheny spurge, Allegheny mountain spurge, Pachysandra procumbens, Japanese spurge, Pachysandra terminalis

History

Etymology

From the New Latin genus name, equivalent to English pachy-, from Ancient Greek παχύς (pakhús) [Term?].