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Noun: fairy cup  feh-ree kúp
  1. A scarlet European fungus with cup-shaped ascocarp
    - 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
    - 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

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