Wiktionary
alt. (context Australia English) An uncontrolled fire in a wooded or grassy area; a wildfire. n. (context Australia English) An uncontrolled fire in a wooded or grassy area; a wildfire.
Usage examples of "bushfire".
To move a couple of thousand feet closer to it is like taking one step closer to a bushfire in Australia when you are standing in Ohio, and expecting to smell smoke.
The terror and exertion of the bushfire seemed to have done it no harm at all.
Soon the separate blazes were merging into a bushfire, a writhing wall of flame that moved forward faster than a human could run.
On the outer edges of the city were still the scars of last summer's dreadful bushfires, but they were hidden now in the darkness.
One Friday night in February, me and Tommy go to a lecture on firefighting at the CFA bushfire headquarters, which is in the Mechanics Institute next to the Masonic Lodge building and is shared with the Amateur Dramatic Society and the Ladies Auxiliary.
Old Mole Maloney is a fair-dinkum bushfire fighter, although all I've done is sit in a pool of water in the creek and beat at a few flames licking up beside the road.