See Also: sphacelia(dictionary)

thruway (oh) and sphacelia (iou)


thruway (oh)



AmE a wide road for fast traffic that you pay to use

sphacelia (iou)



sphacelia noun. L19.
[mod. Latin, from SPHACELUS, with ref. to its effects when eaten: see -IA1.]
Botany. The whitish hymenium or conidial stage of an ergot fungus.
sphacelial adjective E20