Crossword-Solution: LIGNITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “LIGNITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BROWN coal | 1 answer |
| Coal made from wood. | 1 answer |
| Low-grade coal | 1 answer |
| Rock formed from peat | 1 answer |
| anthracite kin | 2 answers |
| soft coal | 2 answers |
| MOURNING ornaments, medium used for (early) | 2 answers |
| Type of coal. | 6 answers |
| Coal ___ | 24 answers |
| Jet | 60 answers |
| fuel | 61 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LIGNITE (5)
The region is one of the world's largest producers of low-grade lignite coal, but has few other resources.
Eastern Germany has one of the world's largest reserves of low-grade lignite coal but little else in the way of mineral resources.
Except Tristan d'Acunha and Kerguelen Land, they are very imperfectly known; and even at Kerguelen Land, how much there is to make out about the lignite beds, and whether there are signs of old Glacial action.
Take the opportunity of groaning over [our] ignorance of the Lignite Plants of Kerguelen Land, or any Antarctic land.
This is shown by the fact that directly overlying the lignite beds are alternating layers of sand and gravel, and, resting on these, glacier-born bowlders.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1942–2010).