elater
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elater (plural elaters)
- (obsolete) Elasticity; especially the expansibility of a gas. elater in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- (botany) A long, slender cell produced among spores and having hygroscopic secondary cell wall thickenings.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 4
- The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The two families share in common: (a) elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally […]
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 4
- (botany) Long, slender hygroscopic appendages attached to the spores of horsetails (genus Equisetum).
