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^[1], 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

• Swedish: gräsbrand c