fairy-ring mushroom
- noun
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seta de anillo de hadas
- We spotted a circle of fairy-ring mushrooms in the park after the rain.
Examples
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The fairy-ring mushroom is known for its distinctive growth pattern.
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Look at that fairy-ring mushroom growing in the grass!
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Some people collect fairy-ring mushrooms for culinary purposes, but caution is advised.
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I found a beautiful fairy-ring mushroom in the park.
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We spotted a circle of fairy-ring mushrooms in the park after the rain.
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Some people collect fairy-ring mushrooms for culinary purposes, but caution is advised.
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Look at that fairy-ring mushroom growing in the grass!
Synonyms
A small edible mushroom that grows in grass in round groups called the fairy ring mushroom
Surface Forms
Morphology
fairy-ring + mushroom
The noun is compositionally built from 'mushroom' and the modifier 'fairy-ring', so a learner who knows 'fairy' and 'ring' can likely infer it refers to a mushroom associated with a ring-shaped growth. However, 'fairy-ring' encodes a specific folkloric/biological concept (a circular patch of fungi) that may not be fully predictable without exposure, so the meaning is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Fairy-ring mushroom comes from a simple picture: people long ago saw mushrooms growing in a neat ring in the grass and imagined fairies dancing there, leaving the circle behind. So the name now means a mushroom that grows in a 'circle' on the ground.
