Lignitic vs. Lignite: What's the Difference?

Lignitic and Lignite Definitions
Lignitic
A soft, brownish-black coal in which the alteration of vegetable matter has proceeded further than in peat but not as far as in bituminous coal. Also called brown coal.
Lignite
A soft, brownish-black coal in which the alteration of vegetable matter has proceeded further than in peat but not as far as in bituminous coal. Also called brown coal.
Lignitic
Containing or resembling lignite.
Lignitic clay
Lignite
A low-grade, brownish-black coal.
Lignitic
Containing lignite; resembling, or of the nature of, lignite; as, lignitic clay.
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Lignite
Mineral coal retaining the texture of the wood from which it was formed, and burning with an empyreumatic odor. It is of more recent origin than the anthracite and bituminous coal of the proper coal series. Called also brown coal, wood coal.
Lignite
Intermediate between peat and bituminous coal