The total mass of organisms in a given area or volume
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Sea coal
Coal brought by sea; -- a name by which mineral coal was formerly designated in the south of England, in distinction from charcoal, which was brought by land.
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A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.The act of depleting or emptying.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.The quality of being efficient or producing an effect or effects; efficient power; effectual agency.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.A lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes; -- used chiefly in the plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.Dug out of the earth; as, fossil coal; fossil salt.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.fuel consisting of the remains of organisms preserved in rocks in the earth's crust with high carbon and hydrogen content
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanent…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.energy derived from the heat in the interior of the earth
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.An oil used for illuminating purposes, formerly obtained from the distillation of mineral wax, bituminous shale, etc., and hence calle…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Resources and energy.Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essentia…
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A hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequ…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coal, brought, name, mineral, formerly.Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coal, brought, name, mineral, formerly.A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coal, brought, name, mineral, formerly.of Bear
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coal, brought, name, mineral, formerly.A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coal, brought, name, mineral, formerly.A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plants, brought from South America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotte…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coal, brought, name, mineral, formerly.A city in England, giving its name various articles. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury (primate of all England), and cont…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coal, brought, name, mineral, formerly.A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coal, brought, name, mineral, formerly.An elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coal, brought, name, mineral, formerly.Alt. of Charr
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coal, brought, name, mineral, formerly.Pertaining to, or resembling, coal; containing coal; of the nature of coal.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coal, brought, name, mineral, formerly.One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coal, brought, name, mineral, formerly.Of or pertaining to a continent.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coal, brought, name, mineral, formerly.
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