fairy cup

Questions about fairy cup

What does fairy cup mean?

fairy cup means "a scarlet European fungus with cup-shaped ascocarp". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for fairy cup?

Close synonyms include blood cup, Peziza coccinea, Mitella diphylla. 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 cup a common word?

fairy cup is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.