资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Fairy \Fair"y\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to fairies.
2. Given by fairies; as, fairy money. --Dryden.
{Fairy bird} (Zo["o]l.), the Euoropean little tern ({Sterna
minuta}); -- called also {sea swallow}, and {hooded tern}.
{Fairy bluebird}. (Zo["o]l.) See under {Bluebird}.
{Fairy martin} (Zo["o]l.), a European swallow ({Hirrundo
ariel}) that builds flask-shaped nests of mud on
overhanging cliffs.
{Fairy} {rings or circles}, the circles formed in grassy
lawns by certain fungi (as {Marasmius Oreades}), formerly
supposed to be caused by fairies in their midnight dances.
{Fairy shrimp} (Zo["o]l.), a European fresh-water phyllopod
crustacean ({Chirocephalus diaphanus}); -- so called from
its delicate colors, transparency, and graceful motions.
The name is sometimes applied to similar American species.
{Fairy stone} (Paleon.), an echinite.
资料来源 : WordNet®
Marasmius oreades
n : mushroom that grows in a fairy ring [syn: {fairy-ring
mushroom}]