AETHALIUM


Meaning of AETHALIUM in English

/ee thay"lee euhm/ , n. , pl. aethalia /-lee euh/ . Mycol.

a large, plump, pillow-shaped fruiting body of certain myxomycetes, formed by the aggregation of plasmodia into a single functional mass.

[ aíthal ( os ) or aithál ( e ) thick smoke, soot (akin to aíthein to kindle, burn) + NL -ium -IUM; so named from the smokelike spores ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .