fairy cup

noun

1. a scarlet European fungus with cup-shaped ascocarp

• Syn: ↑blood cup, ↑Peziza coccinea

• Hypernyms: ↑discomycete, ↑cup fungus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Peziza, ↑genus Peziza

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

• Syn: ↑Mitella diphylla

• Hypernyms: ↑miterwort, ↑mitrewort, ↑bishop's cap

• Member Holonyms: ↑Mitella, ↑genus Mitella

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noun

1. : cowslip 1a

2. : blood cup

3. : a miterwort (Mitella diphylla) of northeastern No. America usually with two opposite leaves on the erect flowering stem that terminates in an upright raceme of white flowers

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fairy cup,

any one of a group of bright-red, cup-like or disklike fungi, growing on the ground and on decaying wood.