wildfire
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noun
1.
a highly flammable composition, as Greek fire, difficult to extinguish when ignited, formerly used in warfare.
2.
any large fire that spreads rapidly and is hard to extinguish.
3.
sheet lightning, unaccompanied by thunder.
4.
the ignis fatuus or a similar light.
5.
Plant Pathology. a disease of tobacco and soybeans, characterized by brown, necrotic spots, each surrounded by a yellow band, on the leaves and caused by a bacterium, Pseudomonas tabaci.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a highly flammable material, such as Greek fire, formerly used in warfare |
| 2. | a. a raging and uncontrollable fire |
| b. anything that is disseminated quickly (esp in the phrase spread like wildfire) | |
| 3. | lightning without audible thunder |
| 4. | another name for will-o'-the-wisp |
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Inhaling smoke on the fire line is part of the job, but researchers are now looking closer at the effects of wildfire smoke.
If such systems could predict how a wildfire was likely to behave, that would be even better.
The spring and summer were particularly active wildfire periods, while the fall season was quieter than average.
Wars, trade and the wildfire ideologies of nationalism and communism shook the region while knitting together its parts.
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