foxfire

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “Perhaps you've seen a foxfire in the woods. Well, in the dark, it looks like a live, burning coal; but when you go to it, and take it up, it's only a piece of rotten wood.”

2. isim Wood exhibiting fungal bioluminescence; torchwood.

   “On the inside is fixed a Barometer, by which he can tell the depth he is under water; a Compass, by which he knows the course he steers. In the barometer and on the needles of the compass is fixed fox-fire, i.e. wood that gives light in the dark.”