marasmius oreades

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marasmius oreades - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Marasmius \Marasmius\ prop. n.
     A genus of chiefly small white-spored mushrooms, including
     the Marasmius oreades, the mushroon that grow in a fairy ring
     .
  
     Syn: genus Marasmius.
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  Champignon \Cham*pi"gnon\, n. [F., a mushroom, ultimately fr. L.
     campus field. See Camp.] (Bot.)
     An edible species of mushroom (Agaricus campestris).
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     Fairy ring champignon, the Marasmius oreades, which has a
        strong flavor but is edible.
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  Fairy \Fair"y\, a.
     1. Of or pertaining to fairies.
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     2. Given by fairies; as, fairy money. --Dryden.
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     Fairy bird (Zool.), the Euoropean little tern (Sterna  minuta
        ); -- called also sea swallow, and hooded tern.
        
  
     Fairy bluebird. (Zool.) See under Bluebird.
  
     Fairy martin (Zool.), a European swallow (Hirrundo ariel)
        that builds flask-shaped nests of mud on overhanging
        cliffs.
  
     Fairy rings or Fairy circles, the circles formed in
        grassy lawns by certain fungi (as Marasmius Oreades),
        formerly supposed to be caused by fairies in their
        midnight dances; also, the mushrooms themselves. Such
        circles may have diameters larger than three meters.
  
     Fairy shrimp (Zool.), 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.
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marasmius oreades - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Marasmius oreades
      n 1: mushroom that grows in a fairy ring [syn: fairy-ring mushroom
           , Marasmius oreades]