wood coal

Questions about wood coal

What does wood coal mean?

wood coal means "intermediate between peat and bituminous coal". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for wood coal?

Close synonyms include lignite, brown coal, charcoal. 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 wood coal a common word?

wood coal is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.