fairy circle

1. 1.

   a ring of fungi marking the periphery of the perennial underground growth of the mycelium

   Synonymsfairy ring

   Broaderring

Questions about fairy circle

What does fairy circle mean?

fairy circle means "a ring of fungi marking the periphery of the perennial underground growth of the mycelium".

What is another word for fairy circle?

Close synonyms include fairy ring. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fairy circle a common word?

fairy circle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.