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单词 lithanthrax
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lithanthraxn.

Forms: Also 1600s lithanthrix, 1700s lithonthrax.
Etymology: modern Latin, < Greek λίθος stone + ἄνθραξ charcoal.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: liˈthanthrax.
Obsolete.
Used as a scientific name for mineral coal (i.e. ‘coal’ in the modern sense), in distinction from xylanthrax (charcoal).
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun]
coal1253
sea-coal1253
pit-coal1483
cannel1541
earth coala1552
horse coal1552
Newcastle coal1552
stone-coal1585
cannel coal1587
parrot1594
burn-coal1597
lithanthrax1612
stony coal1617
Welsh coala1618
land-coala1661
foot coal1665
peacock coal1686
rough coal1686
white coal1686
heathen-coalc1697
coal-stone1708
round1708
stone-coal1708
bench-coal1712
slipper coal1712
black coal1713
culm1742
rock coal1750
board coal1761
Bovey coal1761
house coal1784
mineral coal1785
splint1789
splint coal1789
jet coal1794
anthracite1797
wood-coal1799
blind-coal1802
black diamond1803
silk-coal1803
glance-coal1805
lignite1808
Welsh stone-coal1808
soft1811
spout coals1821
spouter1821
Wallsend1821
brown coal1833
paper coal1833
steam-coal1850
peat-coal1851
cherry-coal1853
household1854
sinter coal1854
oil coal1856
raker1857
Kilkenny coal1861
Pottery coal1867
silkstone1867
block coal1871
admiralty1877
rattlejack1877
bunker1883
fusain1883
smitham1883
bunker coal1885
triping1886
trolley coal1890
kibble1891
sea-borne1892
jet1893
steam1897
sack coal1898
Welsh1898
navigation coal1900
Coalite1906
clarain1919
durain1919
vitrain1919
single1921
kolm1930
hards1956
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > hydrocarbon minerals > [noun] > coal > as distinguished from charcoal
sea-coal1253
earth coala1552
stone-coal1585
lithanthrax1612
stony coal1617
1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. xlvi. 89/1 The Chiefest commodity..are those Stones Linthancraces [sic: ? read lithantraces], which wee call Sea-coales.
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Lithanthrix, a stony Coal, being a kind of Gagate.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Lithanthrax, stony Coal, a kind of Jeat; Pit-coal, or Sea-coal.
a1728 J. Woodward Attempt Nat. Hist. Fossils Eng. (1729) i. 165 Lithonthrax, or Coal.
1802 A. Ellicott Jrnl. (1803) 24 Mines of pit coal (lithanthrax), are..inexhaustible from Pittsburgh many miles down the river.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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