grassfire

English

Alternative forms

grass fire

Etymology

grass +‎ fire

Noun

grassfire (plural grassfires)

A fire burning over grass or grassland.
- 2009 January 20, Anne Wright with AAP, “Grassfire under control after burning property in Frankston North”, in Herald Sun‎:
  FIREFIGHTERS have controlled a grassfire which threatened houses in a heavily populated area in Melbourne's south.

Translations

fire burning over grass or grassland

Danish: græsbrand
Estonian: rohutulekahju
Finnish: kulo (fi), kulopalo, ruohikkopalo (fi)
German: Grasfeuer
Icelandic: sinubruni m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gressbrann

Nynorsk: grasbrann
Swedish: gräsbrand c

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