Found 2 items, similar to Fairy bluebird.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: fairy bluebird
fairy bluebird
n : fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East
Indies [syn:
bluebird]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Fairy bluebird
Fairy
\Fair"y\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to fairies.
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2. Given by fairies; as, fairy money. --Dryden.
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Fairy bird (Zo["o]l.), the Euoropean little tern (
Sterna minuta
); -- called also
sea swallow, and
hooded tern.
Fairy bluebird. (Zo["o]l.) See under
Bluebird.
Fairy martin (Zo["o]l.), 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 (Zo["o]l.), 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.
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