elater

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Etymology 1[edit]

elate +‎ -er

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elater (plural elaters)

  1. That which elates.

Etymology 2[edit]

From New Latin elatēr, from Ancient Greek ἐλατήρ (elatḗr, driver, that which drives away).

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elater (plural elaters)

  1. (obsolete) Elasticity; especially the expansibility of a gas.
  2. (botany) A long, slender cell produced among spores and having hygroscopic secondary cell wall thickenings.
    • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, 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 []
  3. (botany) Any of the long, slender hygroscopic appendages attached to the spores of horsetails (genus Equisetum).
  4. (zoology) An elaterid, or click beetle.
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