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foxfire

/foks-fahyuhr/US // ˈfɒksˌfaɪər //UK // (ˈfɒksˌfaɪə) //

狐火,狐狸火,篝火,狐臭

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S.

    • : organic luminescence, especially from certain fungi on decaying wood.
    • : any of various fungi causing luminescence in decaying wood.

Examples

  • Are you still friends with your Foxfire co-star, Angelina Jolie?

  • The Angel knelt beside his flower bed and recklessly tore up by the roots a big bunch of foxfire.

  • Suspicion glinted like foxfire in the cold green eyes beneath her puckered brows.

  • That that grows out of the foxfire in the swamp has its roots too far back in the inheritance of the race to be discounted.

  • These should have been far more terrifying than any foxfire.