xylanthrax

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Wood coal or charcoal, distinguished from mineral coal; lignite. archaic,uncountable
    — This clay formation, entirely unconnected with that of the Mississippi, and the lower part of the Arkansa, is of a blueish-grey, abounding in pyrites and xylanthrax, and is the active seat of those pseudo-volcanoes and their remains existing in the upper part of the Missouri territory.

词源

Pseudo-loan from Ancient Greek, derived from ξυλο- (xulo-, “wooden”) + ἄνθραξ (ánthrax, “coal”).
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