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fairy
  • n  a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers
  • n  offensive term for an openly homosexual man
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fairy-slipper
  • n  rare north temperate bog orchid bearing a solitary white to pink flower marked with purple at the tip of an erect reddish stalk above 1 basal leaf
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fairy armadillo
  • n  very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck
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fairy bell
  • n  tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock
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fairy bluebird
  • n  fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies
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fairy circle
  • n  a ring of fungi marking the periphery of the perennial underground growth of the mycelium
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fairy cup
  • n  a scarlet European fungus with cup-shaped ascocarp
  • n  miterwort of northeastern North America usually with two opposite leaves on erect flowering stems that terminate in erect racemes of white flowers
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fairy godmother
  • n  a generous benefactor
  • n  a female character in some fairy stories who has magical powers and can bring unexpected good fortune to the hero or heroine
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