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FAIRY CUP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Miterwort of northeastern North America usually with two opposite leaves on erect flowering stems that terminate in erect racemes of white flowers
Synonyms:
fairy cup; Mitella diphylla
Classified under:
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A scarlet European fungus with cup-shaped ascocarp
Synonyms:
blood cup; fairy cup; Peziza coccinea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
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)
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