Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bright-red cup-like fungus, Peziza coccinea.
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Examples
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Ellen Holmes indeed, that she would some time show her where the red-caps and fairy-cups grew, and there was yet time, before sunset, for
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various
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The tall pine-trees whispering to each other across the sky-openings above me, the graceful ferns, the velvet mosses dotted with scarlet fairy-cups, as if the elves had just spread their table for tea, the unspeakable charm of the spice-breathing air, all wove a web of enchantment about me, from which I had no wish to disentangle myself.
A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) Lucy Larcom 1858
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