fairy-ring mushroom

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   mushroom that grows in a fairy ring

   SynonymsMarasmius oreades

   Broaderagaric

   Part ofMarasmius

Questions about fairy-ring mushroom

What does fairy-ring mushroom mean?

fairy-ring mushroom means "mushroom that grows in a fairy ring".

What is another word for fairy-ring mushroom?

Close synonyms include Marasmius oreades. 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 mushroom a common word?

fairy-ring mushroom 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.