Words That End With: LIA

• The vegetative part of any fungus, consisting of a mass of branching, threadlike hyphae, often underground.

• a marginal note written by a scholiast (a commentator on ancient or classical literature)

• apoapsis in solar orbit; the point in the orbit of a planet or comet that is at the greatest distance from the sun

• a condition in which little or no bile is secreted or the flow of bile into the digestive tract is obstructed

• any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers

• deciduous or evergreen American shrubs small trees having very hard wood and milky latex

• native to Australia; introduced elsewhere to control scale insects

• any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads; native to the mountains of Mexico and Central America and Colombia