cinder
noun
a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
cinderlike
-
a word derived from
cinder.
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Nutrients and chemicals from a 60,000-gal-lon fiber-glass reservoir wash long rows of coal-black tuff, a cinderlike debris of volcanic lava brought from the Golan Heights.
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