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Lignite

//ˈlɪɡnaɪ̯t// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A ghost town in California.
  2. 2
    A city and town in North Dakota.
  3. 3
    A ghost town in Virginia.
Noun
  1. 1
    A low-grade, brownish-black coal. countable, uncountable

    "Texas industry is turning to lignite, a kind of poor man's coal, to replace its dwindling allocations of natural gas. The Lone Star State now gets an estimated 12 percent of its electricity from lignite, and that figure is expected to double by 1985."

  2. 2
    intermediate between peat and bituminous coal wordnet

Etymology

From French lignite, from Latin lignum (“firewood”) + -ite.

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