Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A substance derived from the maceration of peat or other vegetable matter.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Min.) A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.

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  • noun mineralogy A brownish-black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jelly-like masses.

Etymologies

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Doppler +‎ -ite, after physicist and mathematician Christian Doppler.

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