A Chinese ornamental (Primula malacoides) grown for its large, rose to pink flowers, grouped in many-flowered umbels.

A small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages and swimming on its back.

(folklore) A place where fairies congregate in a ring, particularly in order to dance. / (mycology, botany) A ring of fungi marking the periphery of the perennial underground growth of the mycelium.

Of the nature of a fairy tale; as if from a fairy tale.

In certain fairy tales, a fictional benevolent woman with magical powers who uses them to help the cause of the protagonist. / (by extension) Any generous benefactor.

Alternative form of away with the fairies

(idiomatic) Not all there; slightly crazy. / (idiomatic) Synonym of lost in thought; distracted or daydreaming. / (idiomatic) fast asleep

A figure of modern myth said to give children a small amount of money (or sometimes a present) in exchange for a milk tooth when it falls out of a child's mouth.

plural of fairy-wren

Any of certain small, insectivorous Australian birds, incorporating fourteen members of the family Maluridae.