Thesaurus: lignite

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1. 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.
2. n. intermediate between peat and bituminous coal
3. 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.
4. Mineral coal retaining the texture of the wood from which itwas formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor. It is of morerecent origin than the anthracite and bituminous coal of the propercoal series. Called also brown coal, wood coal.
5. n:100 n. intermediate between peat and bituminous coal