Definition of Anthracitic

1. Adjective. Relating to or resembling anthracite coal.

Partainyms: Anthracite
Derivative terms: Anthracite

Definition of Anthracitic

1. a. Of, pertaining to, or like, anthracite; as, anthracitic formations.

Definition of Anthracitic

1. Adjective. Pertaining to, or composed of, anthracite. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Anthracitic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthracitic

anthozoan
anthozoans
anthozoic
anthra-
anthracaemia
anthracene
anthracenes
anthracenyl
anthraces
anthracic
anthraciferous
anthracin
anthracite
anthracite coal
anthracites
anthracitic (current term)
anthracnose
anthracnoses
anthraco-
anthracoid
anthracomancy
anthracometer
anthracometers
anthraconite
anthraconites
anthracosilicosis
anthracosis
anthracothere
anthracotheres
anthracotic

Literary usage of Anthracitic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chemical and Geological Essays by Thomas Sterry Hunt (1875)
"Both Lory and Fillet now admit with Favre that the supposed paleontological anomalies of this region have no existence, and that - this anthracitic system ..."

2. The Coals of South Wales with Special Reference to the Origin and by Aubrey Strahan, William Pollard, Ernest George Radley (1908)
"The iso-anthracitic line 17, for example, is drawn through all those ... The iso-anthracitic lines have, of course, no relation to the outcrops of the seams ..."

3. The Coal and Iron Industries of the United Kingdom: Comprising a Description by Richard Meade (1882)
"The coal-fields north of this line produce coal of a bituminous kind, those of the southern area being anthracitic in character. The northern coal-fields ..."

4. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge by ed Andrew Findlater, John Merry Ross (1868)
"... have been detected in these rocks, no satisfactory traces of plants have yet been observed, although extensive layers of anthracitic shales are common. ..."

5. The Earth's History: An Introduction to Modern Geology by Robert Davies Roberts (1893)
"... and the anthracitic, which present very different appearances both in hand specimens and in thin microscopic sections. Attention was prominently drawn ..."

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