See Also: mothball 1, noun(dictionary)
mothball(dictionary)
mothball 2, verb(dictionary)
fix 2, noun(dictionary)
sip 2, noun(dictionary)
pal 1, noun(dictionary)
tot 1, noun(dictionary)
sit-down 2, noun(dictionary)
pan 1, noun(dictionary)
top 1, noun(dictionary)

sphacelia (iou) and mothball 1, noun (oh)


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

mothball 1, noun (oh)



a small ball made of a strong-smelling chemical, used for keeping moths away from clothes
in/into mothballs
kept but not used for a long time
::With the end of the Cold War, several warships were put into mothballs.