Pixie and Pixieish

noun

• Folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous.
  • synonyms: elf, hob, gremlin, pixy, brownie, imp
• Creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas.
  • synonyms: pyxie, pixy, Pyxidanthera barbulata

• (n.) 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.
• (n.) An old English name for a fairy; an elf.