anthracite

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A form of carbonized ancient plants; the hardest and cleanest-burning of all the coals. countable,uncountable
  2. A dark grey color. countable,uncountable
    — In the past, when the author was studying, architects only employed a very restricted palette of colours: the white of modernism, black, a “friendly” shade of anthracite and light grey!

词形变化

anthracites plural

词汇关系

衍生词
anthraciferous anthracitic anthracitism meta-anthracite
并列词
semianthracite bituminous coal sub-bituminous coal brown coal

词源

Via Latin from Ancient Greek ἀνθρακῖτις (anthrakîtis, “a kind of coal”), from ἄνθραξ (ánthrax, “charcoal”). By surface analysis, anthrac- + -ite.
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