Medical Definition of Bovey coal
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A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odour; found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oolite, and not of the true coal era.
Source: Websters Dictionary
(01 Mar 1998)
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