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bushfires

bushfires is the plural of bushfire.

Meaning of bushfire

Noun

bushfire (plural bushfires)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) An uncontrolled fire in a wooded or grassy area; a wildfire.
    • Many homes, a great deal of property and a number of lives were lost as a result of the bushfires in this country.1985, Australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, House of Representatives, Weekly Hansard, Issues 4-6, page 1322

Questions about bushfires

What is bushfires the plural of?
Bushfires is the plural of bushfire.

Words near bushfires in the dictionary

  1. bushfighter
  2. bushfighters
  3. bushfighting
  4. bushfightings
  5. bushfire
  6. bushfires
  7. bushflight
  8. bushfood
  9. bushfoods
  10. bushful
  11. bushfuls

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