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  • Fairy \Fair"y\, a.
  • 1. Of or pertaining to fairies. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Given by fairies; as, fairy money. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • Fairy bird (Zool.), the Euoropean little tern ({Sterna minuta}); -- called also sea swallow, and hooded tern.
  • Fairy bluebird. (Zool.) See under Bluebird.
  • Fairy martin (Zool.), a European swallow (Hirrundo ariel) that builds flask-shaped nests of mud on overhanging cliffs.
  • Fairy rings or Fairy circles, the circles formed in grassy lawns by certain fungi (as Marasmius Oreades), formerly supposed to be caused by fairies in their midnight dances; also, the mushrooms themselves. Such circles may have diameters larger than three meters.
  • Fairy shrimp (Zool.), a European fresh-water phyllopod crustacean (Chirocephalus diaphanus); -- so called from its delicate colors, transparency, and graceful motions. The name is sometimes applied to similar American species.
  • Fairy stone (Paleon.), an echinite. [1913 Webster]

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