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fairy cup

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: fairy cup

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n
a scarlet European fungus with cup-shaped ascocarp
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n
miterwort of northeastern North America usually with two opposite leaves on erect flowering stems that terminate in erect racemes of white flowers
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: fairy cup
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n a scarlet European fungus with cup-shaped ascocarp

Synonyms:
Peziza coccinea, blood cup
Type of:
cup fungus, discomycete
any fungus that is a member of the subclass Discomycetes
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n miterwort of northeastern North America usually with two opposite leaves on erect flowering stems that terminate in erect racemes of white flowers

Synonyms:
Mitella diphylla
Type of:
bishop's cap, miterwort, mitrewort
any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter
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