English Explanatory Dictionary

durain

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A type of coal.

Word forms

durain durains

Etymology

From Latin dūrus (“hard”) + -ain in fusain; compare French -ain (“-ane”). Coined by British birth control campaigner and paleontologist Marie Stopes in 1918.

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