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Definition of Fairy circle
1. Noun. A ring of fungi marking the periphery of the perennial underground growth of the mycelium.
Definition of Fairy circle
1. Noun. A ring of fungi marking the periphery of the perennial underground growth of the mycelium. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fairy Circle
Literary usage of Fairy circle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1864)
"fairy circle, a frequent phenomenon in fields and meadows in Great Britain, once
attributed by the peasantry to the feet of ..."
2. The Columbian Magazine edited by John Inman, Robert A. West, Stephen M. Chester, Darius Mead (1845)
"meadow in which Iny the object of hie search—a fairy circle. Now this same lairy
circle, is nothing more nor less than a ring of grasa, which from some ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1792)
"... Fairy- circle, which was cut in two by the brook. I faw the circle, if
compleated, mud fall on the other fide of the water, and, on examination, ..."
4. Transactions of the Essex Field Club. by Essex Field Club (1883)
"In a perfect fairy circle we have, then, starting from the centre, a ring of
barren ground" a ... In some instances a fairy circle of Fungi is only to be ..."
5. British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes (1880)
"PLUCKED FROM THE fairy circle. But lago was still absent next morning, and now
Twm was cross-questioned severely as to what had become of his fellow-servant ..."
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