lignite
lig nahyt
- n intermediate between peat and bituminous coal
- Sensing that he ought to get away from his study for a while, he eases off on his definitive life of Buddha and tries to run a lignite mine.
- The skies were leaden with fumes from the sulfurous lignite used to generate electricity.
- However, we are also equally proud of the North Dakota lignite coal development in our State.