fairy bluebird bluebird | fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies |
fairy swallow | fancy domestic pigeon having blue-and-white plumage and heavily muffed feet |
fairy shrimp | small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages, swims on its back |
pichiciago pichiciego fairy armadillo chlamyphore Chlamyphorus truncatus | very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck |
fairy light | a small colored light used for decoration (especially at Christmas) |
old wives' tale | a bit of lore passed on by word of mouth |
adventure story heroic tale | a story of an adventure |
fib story tale tarradiddle taradiddle | a trivial lie, he told a fib about eating his spinach, how can I stop my child from telling stories? |
fairytale fairy tale fairy story cock-and-bull story song and dance | an interesting but highly implausible story, often told as an excuse |
narrative narration story tale | a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events, presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program, his narrative was interesting, Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children |
tall tale | an improbable (unusual or incredible or fanciful) story |
folktale folk tale | a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk |
fairytale fairy tale fairy story | a story about fairies, told to amuse children |
fairy faery faerie fay sprite | a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers |
fairy godmother | a female character in some fairy stories who has magical powers and can bring unexpected good fortune to the hero or heroine |
bad fairy | a fairy that tends to cause harm |
tooth fairy | a fairy that is said to leave money at night under a child's pillow to compensate for a baby tooth falling out |
b fagot faggot fag fairy nance pansy queen queer poof poove pouf | offensive term for an openly homosexual man |
fairy godmother | a generous benefactor |
calypso fairy-slipper Calypso bulbosa | rare north temperate bog orchid bearing a solitary white to pink flower marked with purple at the tip of an erect reddish stalk above basal leaf |
globe lily fairy lantern | any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having egg-shaped flowers |
white globe lily white fairy lantern Calochortus albus | globe lily having open branched clusters of egg-shaped white flowers, southern California |
yellow globe lily golden fairy lantern Calochortus amabilis | globe lily having open branched clusters of clear yellow egg-shaped flowers, northern California |
fairy cup Mitella diphylla | miterwort of northeastern North America usually with two opposite leaves on erect flowering stems that terminate in erect racemes of white flowers |
common foxglove fairy bell fingerflower finger-flower fingerroot fingeroot Digitalis purpurea | tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers, leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock |
fairy ring fairy circle | a ring of fungi marking the periphery of the perennial underground growth of the mycelium |
blood cup fairy cup Peziza coccinea | a scarlet European fungus with cup-shaped ascocarp |