foxfire
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- /ˈfɑːkˌfaɪər/
- It sprang up the moment it dried after being washed, like small cool phosphorescent tongues of foxfire.
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Watch on YouTubeA fungally bioluminescent bits of wood were used to illuminate the depth gauge of the turtle, known as foxfire.
- A fungally bioluminescent bits of wood were used to illuminate the depth gauge of the turtle, known as foxfire.
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The Foxfire program in Georgia comes to mind, as do Project Wild and Project Learning Tree in Colorado and the innovations in the Fremont County School District in Wyoming.
Academic text (1991) -
Foxfire fungus.
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I was a huge fan of those Foxfire books when I was a kid and still love to imagine being able to live off the land.
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Foxfire.
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You looked delicious in your argyle vest and green cap while walking by on Foxfire Lane last Sunday.
Fiction book (2000) -
Sometimes at night, greasy-scented yellow light flickered through the lattices of their buildings, inconstant as foxfire, the glow of marsh gas at night.
Fiction book (2001) -
Just to answer the one question, Eliot Wiggington, the man who founded Foxfire and was an acclaimed non-profit leader, activist, and teacher for decades, turned out to be a sexual predator on a serial level.
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Your walk down memory lane reminded me why my dad went out and bought every Foxfire book, plowed and planted the back 40, stocked up on freeze-dried food, precious metals, and raised rabbits and bees.
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At night in the forest, we could see a mysterious glow that resembled foxfire emanating from the decaying logs.
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The old tree stump gave off a faint, greenish light that looked like foxfire in the darkness.
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The word foxfire combines fox and fire, because people long ago imagined a fox's tail or path giving off a strange light. That's why foxfire now means the faint green light you sometimes see on dead wood, often caused by certain glowing fungi.