Australian English Meaning of lignite

brown coal

Other Australian English words related to brown coal

No Synonyms and anytonyms found

Definitions and Meaning of lignite in English

Wordnet

lignite (n)

intermediate between peat and bituminous coal

Webster

lignite (n.)

Mineral coal retaining the texture of the wood from which it was formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor. It is of more recent origin than the anthracite and bituminous coal of the proper coal series. Called also brown coal, wood coal.

FAQs About the word lignite

brown coal

intermediate between peat and bituminous coalMineral coal retaining the texture of the wood from which it was formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor. It

No synonyms found.

No antonyms found.

lignireose => Lignirose, ligniperdous => †wood-eating, lignin => Lignin, lignifying => Lignifying, lignify => Lignify,