How to pronounce“foxfire”in English
in its in its current form they want to keep it as a piece of rough and the other one is very interested in making it into into a pendant a pendant that
could be more than 100 carats uncut Foxfire is expected to fetch between 5 and $10 million that's a fraction of the $63
million this $813 carat diamond found by lucara diamonds in Botswana sold for
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Definitions of “foxfire”
Bioluminescence created by some types of fungus, particularly those growing on rotting wood.
“The foxfire,—as the country people call it,—glowed hideously from the cold and matted bosom of the marsh; and, far from us, in the depths of darkness, the screech-owl sat upon his perch, brooding over the slimy pool, and whooping out a dismal curfew, that fell upon the ear like the cries of a tortured ghost.”
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.”