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foxfire
or fox-fire
[ foks-fahyuhr ]
noun
, Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S.
- organic luminescence, especially from certain fungi on decaying wood.
- any of various fungi causing luminescence in decaying wood.
foxfire
/ ˈfɒksˌfaɪə /
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Are you still friends with your Foxfire co-star, Angelina Jolie?
From The Daily Beast
The Angel knelt beside his flower bed and recklessly tore up by the roots a big bunch of foxfire.
From Project Gutenberg
Suspicion glinted like foxfire in the cold green eyes beneath her puckered brows.
From Project Gutenberg
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.
From Project Gutenberg
These should have been far more terrifying than any foxfire.
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