Home › Words › C › clarainclarainclarain means A form of coal having stratifications parallel to the bedding plane.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, clarain ranks #2,613 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom Latin clārus + French -ain (“-ane”), after fusain. Coined by British birth control campaigner and paleontologist Marie Stopes in 1918.nounA form of coal having stratifications parallel to the bedding plane.e.g.“Insufficient fusain was available, whilst it was thought that the behaviour of clarain would be intermediate between durain and vitrain.” — 1954, Wilfrid Francis, “The Composition of Mature Coals”, in Coal: Its Formation and Composition, London: Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd., →OCLC, page 391:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.cloam 60% match — Clay. vs clarain →clayed 59% match — Containing clay. vs clarain →durain 58% match — A type of coal. vs clarain →claybed 58% match — A bed of clay. vs clarain →coallike 57% match — Resembling or characteristic of coal. vs clarain →culmy 57% match — Resembling or characteristic of culm (a type of coal). vs clarain →colloform 57% match — Having a rounded, finely banded texture formed by rhythmic precipitation. vs clarain →clairite 57% match — A triclinic yellow mineral containing hydrogen, iron, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur. vs clarain →