COAL SEAM

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A seam of coal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("coal seam" is a kind of...):

bed; seam (a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit)

Meronyms (parts of "coal seam"):

coalface (the part of a coal seam that is being cut)

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