ligniet
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French lignite.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɪxˈnit/
- Hyphenation: lig‧niet
- Rhymes: -it
Noun
ligniet n or c (uncountable)
- lignite, brown coal
- Synonym: bruinkool
Usage notes
- The common gender is obsolete, being mostly found during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- The specialist distinction between lignite and sub-bitumous coal is generally not made in Dutch.