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backburns

backburns is the plural of backburn.

backburns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of backburn.

Meaning of backburn

Noun

backburn (plural backburns)

  1. A controlled burn, lit in the path of a wildfire, in order to deprive it of combustible material.

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Questions about backburns

What is backburns the plural of?
Backburns is the plural of backburn.

Words near backburns in the dictionary

  1. backburner
  2. backburnered
  3. backburnering
  4. backburners
  5. backburning
  6. backburns
  7. backburnt
  8. backcalculate
  9. backcalculated
  10. backcalculation
  11. backcalculations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backburns (page history and authors); backburn (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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