English Explanatory Dictionary

clarain

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A form of coal having stratifications parallel to the bedding plane.

Word forms

clarain clarains

Etymology

From Latin clārus + French -ain (“-ane”), after fusain. Coined by British birth control campaigner and paleontologist Marie Stopes in 1918.

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