Pyxidium

pik-sid′i-um, n. ( bot. ) a pod or seed-ve el which opens in two halves, the upper one resembling a lid. [Gr. pyxidion , dim. of pyxis .] Q to Quo warran to fāte, fär; mē, hėr; mīne; mōte; mūte; mōōn; th en. IMG:c308_Chambers_1908_Q.png_utm_source_en.wiki source.org_utm_campaign_parser_utm_content_thumbnail_unscaled:Chambers_1908_Q.png?utm_source=en.wiki source.org _campaign=parser _content=thumbnail_unscaled the seventeenth letter of our alphabet—absent from the Anglo-Saxon alphabet, in which the sound was expre ed by cw ; in Scotland replacing hw , now always followed by u : Roman numeral=500.