The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lignite \Lig"nite\ (l[i^]g"n[imac]t), n. [L. lignum wood: cf. F. lignite.] (Min.) Mineral coal retaining the texture of the wood from which it was formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor. It is of more recent origin than the anthracite and bituminous coal of the proper coal series. Called also brown coal, wood coal.
Wiktionary
n. lignite
WordNet
Usage examples of "brown coal".
However, the British also claim we are behind in our shipments of brown coal to Berlin by some thirty thousand tons.
There was an agreement to exchange the industrial coal of the Ruhr for the brown coal from Silesia to heat the city.
In order of increasing energy content, they are lignite ('brown coal,' 9-17,000,000 BTU/ton), bituminous coal ('soft coal,' 21-30,000,000 BTU/ton), and anthracite ('hard coal,' 22-28,000,000 BTU/ton)([i]Wikipedia[/i], 'Coal').
I they had burned some of the brown coal, and the heavy mammoth hide was now on their feet.
It was a dirty country habit to mix trash with brown coal for incineration.
When he next came to, his head was mobile again and there was something looking like a big brown coal-scuttle lying beside him.
The sky was blue despite all those East German generating plants that burn brown coal so that pale smog sits over the city for so much of the year.