English Explanatory Dictionary

maceral

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A component of coal or oil shale.

Word forms

maceral macerals

Etymology

From Latin mācerō (“macerate”) + -al, after mineral. Coined by British birth control campaigner and paleontologist Marie Stopes in 1935.

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