FOREST FIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forest fire mean? 

• FOREST FIRE (noun)
  The noun FOREST FIRE has 1 sense:

1. an uncontrolled fire in a wooded area

  Familiarity information: FOREST FIRE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOREST FIRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An uncontrolled fire in a wooded area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("forest fire" is a kind of...):

fire (the event of something burning (often destructive))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "forest fire"):

crown fire (a forest fire that advances with great speed jumping from crown to crown ahead of the ground fire)

ground fire (a forest fire that burns the humus; may not appear on the surface)

surface fire (a forest fire that burns only the surface litter and undergrowth)

 Context examples 

A chemical substance found naturally in small amounts in plants, trees, volcanoes, and forest fires.

(Acetone, NCI Dictionary)

Airborne Particulate Matter is a broad class of materials and substances of minute size present in the air that originate from industrial manufacturing processes, automobile exhaust, forest fires, and fossil fuel combustion.

(Airborne Particulate Matter, NCI Thesaurus)

Acetone occurs naturally in plants, trees, forest fires, vehicle exhaust and as a breakdown product of animal fat metabolism.

(Acetone, NCI Thesaurus)

The research team analysed the influence of ultrafine particles on cloud cycles in the rainforest during the 2014 rainy season, when there were no forest fires and the only source of pollution was Manaus, the largest city in the Amazon.

(Tiny pollutants intensify storms in the Amazon, SciDev.Net)