durain

[doo r-eyn, dyoo r-]

noun Mineralogy.

the coal forming the dull layers in banded bituminous coal.

Compare clarain, vitrain.

Origin of durain

1915–20; < Latin dūr(us) hard + -ain, from fusain, by analysis as a suffix

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