English Explanatory Dictionary

vitrain

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A constituent of banded bituminous coal consisting of a horizontal glossy band of friable material.

Word forms

vitrain vitrains

Etymology

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

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