fairy cup

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Noun	1.	fairy cup - a scarlet European fungus with cup-shaped ascocarp blood cup, Peziza coccinea cup fungus, discomycete - any fungus that is a member of the subclass Discomycetes genus Peziza, Peziza - type genus of the Pezizaceae: a variety of cup fungus
	2.	fairy cup - miterwort of northeastern North America usually with two opposite leaves on erect flowering stems that terminate in erect racemes of white flowers Mitella diphylla genus Mitella, Mitella - genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals bishop's cap, miterwort, mitrewort - any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter

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