n. a cargo plane especially equipped for carrying large quantities of water to be used in extinguishing forest fires.
See also: fire bomber
- 1961  The Grove and Tsus fires, they claim, could have been kept small if water bombers and helicopters had been available from the beginning. . . .
- 1965  They included two [forest fires] caused by lightning . . . one of which was knocked out by a Mars waterbomber. . . .