fairy ring

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsfairy circle

   Broaderring

Questions about fairy ring

What does fairy ring mean?

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

What is another word for fairy ring?

Close synonyms include fairy circle. 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 ring a common word?

fairy ring 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.