Usually means: Bioluminescence from fungi on wood.
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  1. foxfire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. foxfire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. foxfire: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Foxfire, foxfire: Wordnik
  5. foxfire: Wiktionary
  6. foxfire: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. foxfire: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. foxfire: Dictionary.com
  9. Foxfire (bioluminescence), Foxfire (comics), Foxfire (disambiguation), Foxfire (magazine), Foxfire (play), Foxfire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. foxfire: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Foxfire: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (foxfire)

noun:  (mycology, chiefly US) Bioluminescence created by some types of fungus, particularly those growing on rotting wood.
noun:  (by extension, loosely) Wood exhibiting fungal bioluminescence; torchwood.

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