FAIRY CUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fairy cup mean? 

• FAIRY CUP (noun)
  The noun FAIRY CUP has 2 senses:

1. a scarlet European fungus with cup-shaped ascocarp

2. miterwort of northeastern North America usually with two opposite leaves on erect flowering stems that terminate in erect racemes of white flowers

  Familiarity information: FAIRY CUP used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAIRY CUP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A scarlet European fungus with cup-shaped ascocarp

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

blood cup; fairy cup; Peziza coccinea

Hypernyms ("fairy cup" is a kind of...):

cup fungus; discomycete (any fungus that is a member of the subclass Discomycetes)

Holonyms ("fairy cup" is a member of...):

genus Peziza; Peziza (type genus of the Pezizaceae: a variety of cup fungus)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Miterwort of northeastern North America usually with two opposite leaves on erect flowering stems that terminate in erect racemes of white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

fairy cup; Mitella diphylla

Hypernyms ("fairy cup" is a kind of...):

bishop's cap; miterwort; mitrewort (any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter)

Holonyms ("fairy cup" is a member of...):

genus Mitella; Mitella (genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals)