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Campfire vs Camphire - What's the difference?

campfire | camphire |

As nouns the difference between campfire and camphire

is that campfire is fire at a campground or on a camping trip, often used for cooking, to provide light and heat, to drive away bugs, and as a focal point for sitting around in the evening and talking, telling stories, and singing while camphire is the fragrant henna flower (or plant): Lawsonia alba

campfire

English

(wikipedia campfire)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Fire at a campground or on a camping trip, often used for cooking, to provide light and heat, to drive away bugs, and as a focal point for sitting around in the evening and talking, telling stories, and singing.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
    • , title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire , had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.}}

    Related terms

    * bonfire * campground * Campfire Girls * camping * camping trip * campfire story * campfire song * canoe trip

    camphire

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the fragrant henna flower (or plant): Lawsonia alba
    • A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire , with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices (Song of Solomon 4:12-14, KJV)