Found 2 items, similar to wood coal.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: wood coal wood coal n 1: intermediate between peat and bituminous coal [syn: lignite, brown coal] 2: a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air [syn: charcoal]
English → English (gcide) Definition: wood coal Lignite \Lig"nite\ (l[i^]g"n[imac]t), n. [L. lignum wood: cf. F. lignite.] (Min.) Mineral coal retaining the texture of the wood from which it was formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor. It is of more recent origin than the anthracite and bituminous coal of the proper coal series. Called also brown coal, wood coal . [1913 Webster]