grassfire

English

Alternative forms

• grass fire

Etymology

From grass +‎ fire.

Noun

grassfire (plural grassfires)

1. 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, archived from the original on 24 February 2009:

     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 Polish: pożar trawy m Swedish: gräsbrand c