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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) lignite
a soft coal, usu. dark brown, often having a distinct woodlike texture, and intermediate in density and carbon content between peat and bituminous coal.

Etymology: (1800–10; < L

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1. (noun) lignite, brown coal, wood coal
intermediate between peat and bituminous coal

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Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) lignite
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

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