Foxfire

Word FOXFIRE
Character 7
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈfɒksfaɪə/

Definitions and meanings of "Foxfire"

What do we mean by foxfire?

A phosphorescent glow produced by certain bioluminescent fungi that grow on rotting wood. noun

The phosohorescent light given forth by decayed or foxed timber. noun

Bioluminescence created by some types of fungus noun

Bioluminescence created by some types of fungus, particularly those growing on rotting wood.

(by extension) Wood exhibiting fungal bioluminescence; torchwood.

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The word "foxfire" in example sentences

His first supposition was that it was a fungus growth known in the country as "foxfire," which gives out a phosphorescent glow in the darkness; but after watching and studying it for a long time, he was convinced it was something else. ❋ Edward Sylvester Ellis (1878)

i just started a diaryring for the movie "foxfire" so if you like "foxfire," go join my ring here! last night ·· tomorrow the songs that made you smile: ❋ Vintagegrrrl (2003)

His eyes burned very blue in the darkness beyond, like foxfire. ❋ Laura Bickle (2010)

His eyes gleamed foxfire blue, an inhuman color in the half-dark. ❋ Laura Bickle (2010)

Black against the gray background, impossibly big, glowing with its own blue light like a rotten log full of foxfire. ❋ L.J. SMITH (2010)

As you drive, you look around you at all the signs of degeneration; you hear distant explosions, perhaps catch the foxfire glow of a nearby inferno. ❋ SVGL (2008)

Then, as she looked down for a moment, the lines of the diagram began to glow with a soft, bluish-white light, as if she had drawn them with foxfire instead of chalk. ❋ Ryn Cricket (2010)

It glowed; the strange dim light of the foxfire found in rotten stumps. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

Some kinds of mushrooms that grow on rotting wood emit a dim light called foxfire. ❋ James Gurney (2009)

They have an online porftolio -- revisions history -- and how many revisions they have made -- showing a doc that has 173 people looking at- advantage of publication is this quality see the foxfire information -- similar format. ❋ Unknown (2008)

MOREOVER: In the episode of "Lassie" that first aired on October 26, 1958, "Timmy and Boomer hunt foxfire to smear on their faces and become trapped in an abandoned house in the woods that is scheduled for demolition." ❋ Ann Althouse (2006)

Like the foxfire, like the wood spirits, I've seen the Lord in those woods, you know, angels walking through those woods to protect the believers, and Jesus coming through the hollow there at night passing blessings over the houses of the poor, for the poor shall inherited the wealth of the Lord and live in mansions not cabins when we all get to heaven. ❋ The Daily Growler (2006)

As she became more real and solid, she also began to glow-but it was as if she had brought sunlight into the midnight world, not the sort of sickly foxfire that the revenants radiated. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2004)

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