| fairy ring | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a ring of dark luxuriant vegetation in grassy ground corresponding to the edge of an underground fungal mycelium: popularly associated with the dancing of fairies: seasonally marked by a ring of mushrooms |
| 2. | short for fairy ring mushroom, Marasmius oreades, a dainty buff-coloured edible basidiomycetous fungus, characteristically forming rings in grassland |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |