mineral pitch

1. 1.

   a dark bituminous substance found in natural beds and as residue from petroleum distillation; consists mainly of hydrocarbons

   Synonymsasphalt

   Broadermineral

Questions about mineral pitch

What does mineral pitch mean?

mineral pitch means "a dark bituminous substance found in natural beds and as residue from petroleum distillation; consists mainly of hydrocarbons".

What is another word for mineral pitch?

Close synonyms include asphalt. 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 mineral pitch a common word?

mineral pitch 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.