brown coal

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   intermediate between peat and bituminous coal

   Synonymslignitewood coal

   Broadercoalhumate

   Narrowerjet

Questions about brown coal

What does brown coal mean?

brown coal means "intermediate between peat and bituminous coal".

What is another word for brown coal?

Close synonyms include lignite, wood coal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brown coal a common word?

brown coal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.