pachysandra

IPA: pætʃɪsˈændrʌ

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

Examples of "pachysandra" in Sentences

(One might never find its way out of the pachysandra.)
Once I thought I got close and I almost died - and it was just a hose moving through some patch of pachysandra.
There's a dark patch of pachysandra that grows by the thin line of trees that separates our yard from the neighbors.
We burned you up (though you mentioned the River); the mother-bitch and I watched the old lamb jiggle you into a hole amid the sprawls of pachysandra.
Growing up in Boston, Charlie had met any number of these short, plucky, velvet-eyed ladies; they were as common in these parts as pachysandra and chrysanthemums.
So I hacked that all down and hauled it away, cleaned up about ten years of pine needles, repositioned the feeders, and then went and bought a couple trays of pachysandra, which is a nice ground cover, works really well in acidic soil, and is native to the aimai