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fairy mushrooms

fairy mushrooms is the plural of fairy mushroom.

Meaning of fairy mushroom

Noun

fairy mushroom (plural fairy mushrooms)

  1. Any of various small mushrooms growing on stalks.
    • The toadstools or poisonous mushrooms are named Bwyd Ellyllon, or Elves'-food. Perhaps, however, it is not the large ugly toadstools that are so named, but those pretty small delicate fungi, with their conical heads, which are named Fairy-mushrooms in Ireland, where they grow so plentifully.1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 412

Questions about fairy mushrooms

What is fairy mushrooms the plural of?
Fairy mushrooms is the plural of fairy mushroom.

Words near fairy mushrooms in the dictionary

  1. fairy mist
  2. fairy money
  3. fairy moss
  4. fairy mound
  5. fairy mushroom
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  10. fairy penguin
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