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Fairy ring
noun
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Noun
- 1 A place where fairies congregate in a ring, particularly in order to dance.
"They are fond of music and dancing. It is their dancing that forms the fairy rings."
- 2 a ring of fungi marking the periphery of the perennial underground growth of the mycelium wordnet
- 3 A ring of fungi marking the periphery of the perennial underground growth of the mycelium.
"This curious phenomenon has been differently accounted for. The following is Mr. Nicholson's description and explanation: "the appearance in the grass, says he, commonly called Fairy Rings, is well known. It consists either of a ring of grass of more luxuriant vegetation than the rest, or a kind of circular path in which the vegetation is more defective than elsewhere. It appears to be pretty well ascertained that the latter state precedes the former. […]"
Etymology
The idea of a ring where fairies danced was a traditional explanation for the fungal phenomenon before it was understood.
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