英语词汇“fox、fire”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

fox-fire

释义

fox-fire Now only U.S.
The phosphorescent light emitted by decaying timber.
1483Cath. Angl. 140 Fox Fire, glos, glossis.1824J. Doddridge Notes Virginia & Pennsylv. 290 If they had seen any thing like fire, between that and the fort, it must have been fox fire.1832J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn I. xxviii. 311 The fox-fire—as the country people call it—glowed hideously from the cold and matted bosom of the marsh.1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxiv. (1856) 193 The fox-fire of the Virginia meadows.1872E. Eggleston End of World xxxii. 210 The ‘fox-fire’, rotting logs glowing with a faint luminosity, startled her several times.1920J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas 149 There is where you could see phosphorescence (fox fire) on our horses' ears.

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