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elaters

elaters is the plural of elater.

Meaning of elater

Noun (1)

elater (plural elaters)

  1. That which elates.

Noun (2)

elater (plural elaters)

  1. (obsolete) Elasticity; especially the expansibility of a gas.
  2. A long, slender cell produced among spores and having hygroscopic secondary cell wall thickenings.
    • 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[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 4
  3. Any of the long, slender hygroscopic appendages attached to the spores of horsetails (genus Equisetum).
  4. An elaterid, or click beetle.

Questions about elaters

What is elaters the plural of?
Elaters is the plural of elater.

Words near elaters in the dictionary

  1. elaterite
  2. elaterites
  3. elaterium
  4. elateroid
  5. elateroids
  6. elaters
  7. elatery
  8. elates
  9. elateth
  10. Elath
  11. Elatha

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