Anthracite Definition

ănthrə-sīt

noun

A dense, shiny coal that has a high carbon content and little volatile matter and burns with a clean flame.

American Heritage

A shiny black, hard, metamorphic coal that contains a low percentage of volatile matter and burns with a smokeless flame.

Webster's New World

A form of carbonized ancient plants; the hardest and cleanest-burning of all the coals; hard coal.

Wiktionary

A dark grey colour.

Wiktionary

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Other Word Forms of Anthracite

Singular:

anthracite

Plural:

anthracites

Probably ultimately from Greek anthrakitis a kind of coal from anthrax anthrak- charcoal

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀνθρακῖτις (anthrakitis, “a kind of coal”), from ἄνθραξ (anthrax, “charcoal”)

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