elater
English
Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
Noun
elater (plural elaters)
- That which elates.
Etymology 2
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 159: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value NL. is not valid. See WT:LOL. elater, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἐλατήρ (elatḗr, “driver, that which drives away”)
Noun
elater (plural elaters)
- (obsolete) Elasticity; especially the expansibility of a gas.
- (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 […]
- (botany) Any of the long, slender hygroscopic appendages attached to the spores of horsetails (genus Equisetum).
- (zoology) An elaterid, or click beetle.
Derived terms
References
- “elater”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.