c. 1400, "a box," especially the vessel in which the host or consecrated bread is preserved, from Latin pyxis, from Greek pyxis "box-wood; a box," from pyxos "box-wood; box-tree," of uncertain origin.
双语例句
1. The 2,6 dipicrylamino 3,5 dinitro pyridine ( PYX ) pureness reference material had been certificated by potentiometric method.
用电位滴定法对2,6-双(苦氨基)-3,5-二硝基吡啶 ( PYX ) 标准物质的纯度进行测定.
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2. And two streets off another locking it into a pyx.