"fairy mushroom" meaning in All languages combined

See fairy mushroom on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: fairy mushrooms [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} fairy mushroom (plural fairy mushrooms)
  1. Any of various small mushrooms growing on stalks.
    Sense id: en-fairy_mushroom-en-noun-wkUYepsb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Mushrooms

Inflected forms

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          "text": "The toadstools or poisonous mushrooms are named Bwyd Ellyllon, or Elves'-food. Perhaps, however, it is not the large ugly toadstools that are so named, but those pretty small delicate fungi, with their conical heads, which are named Fairy-mushrooms in Ireland, where they grow so plentifully.",
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          "ref": "1869, Patrick Kennedy, Evenings in the Duffrey, Dublin: M'Glashan and Gill, page 6:",
          "text": "[I]f she wishes to see them at their sport, she has only to make a ring out of a thraneen, and look at them through it, and she will see them in all their bravery with their fox-glove caps and green jerkins, capering to the sound of a bag-pipe, with a lurikeen playing it, and he sitting on a fairy mushroom; but she will never see a stim with that eye again.",
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