lignite

名词 n.
发音 lĭgnīt

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A low-grade, brownish-black coal. countable,uncountable
    — Texas industry is turning to lignite, a kind of poor man's coal, to replace its dwindling allocations of natural gas. The Lone Star State now gets an estimated 12 percent of its electricity from lignite, and that figure is expected to double by 1985.

词形变化

lignites plural

词源

From French lignite, from Latin lignum (“firewood”) + -ite.
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