lignite

Speech parts

1. lignite - Noun

2. Lignite - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

brown coal wood coal garnet emery coke clay crystal graphite brimstone mineral calcite alabaster bauxite fluorite carbon
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Hypernyms

coal humate

Hyponyms

jet

Phrases with the word

black lignite yellow lignite gray lignite coal lignite lignite fired

Examples

A number of workers are feared trapped inside the NLC Neyveli lignite plant. Source: Internet

In 2008 an estimated 35 billion tonnes of lignite reserves was found near Legnica, making them some of the largest in the world. citation From the fourth century BC iron ore has been mined in the upland areas of Silesia. Source: Internet

It was also stressed that the transition of western Macedonia and the Municipality of Megalopolis away from lignite is moving forward. Source: Internet

Petroleum and lignite are found there in abundance. Source: Internet

Mont Ross A few lignite strata, trapped in basalt flows, reveal fossilised araucarian fragments, dated at about 14 million years of age. Source: Internet

It is very fertile, and has lignite deposits and stone quarries. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

ligninolytic ligniperdous lignireose lignite fired lignitic lignitiferous