| 单词 | crown fire |
| 释义 | > as lemmascrown fire crown fire n. [after German Kronenfeuer (1848 or earlier)] a forest fire which spreads between the crowns (sense 21b) of the trees, and may advance at this level ahead of any fire at lower levels of the forest (also figurative). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > a fire > [noun] > a kind of fire > destructive > bush or forest fire prairie fire1824 bush-fire1847 brush-fire1850 crown fire1893 red steer1936 1893 J. Nisbet tr. H. Fürst Protection Woodlands iii. iv. 233 Forest fires may occur in many different forms, but they are usually distinguishable either as ground-fires.., or else as conflagrations or crown-fires, assuming the form of vast flames centred in and devouring the leaf-canopy formed by the crowns of the trees. 1938 J. E. Weaver & F. E. Clements Plant Ecol. (ed. 2) ii. 47 Crown fires race through the tops of the trees at a high rate of speed. 1998 New Yorker 9 Mar. 58/3 A strain of multi-drug-resistant Black Death might be able to amplify itself through a human population,..culminating in a biological crown fire in the human species. 2003 N.Y. Times 24 Aug. 9/4 Officials ordered 20,000 people to flee..as the forest fire leapt from treetop to treetop. ‘It's almost impossible to stop a crown fire that's moving like this one.’ < as lemmas |
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