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Noun: fairy cup  feh-ree kúp
  1. A scarlet European fungus with cup-shaped ascocarp
    "The fairy cup's vivid red colour stood out against the moss";
    - blood cup, Peziza coccinea
     
  2. Miterwort of northeastern North America usually with two opposite leaves on erect flowering stems that terminate in erect racemes of white flowers
    "Fairy cup's delicate blooms appeared like tiny cups among the forest understory";
    - Mitella diphylla

Derived forms: fairy cups

Type of: bishop's cap, cup fungus, discomycete, miterwort [US], mitrewort [Brit, Cdn]

Part of: genus Mitella, genus Peziza, Mitella, Peziza