anthraco-

• anthrac- (before a vowel)

From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from New Latin anthracites, from Ancient Greek ἄνθραξ (ánthrax) (which see for more), whence also Latin anthrax, whence English anthrax (because the black eschars of that disease are named for their resemblance to coals).

anthraco-

1. (organic chemistry) Alternative form of anthra- (for derivatives of anthracene).
2. (medicine) coal.
3. charcoal.

• anthracite
• anthrax (etymologically related but semantically never overlapping; no anthraco-derived English terms have reference to anthrax)
• semianthracite

• acanthor, at anchor