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elator

elator is the alternative form 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.

Forms of elator

pluralelators

Questions about elator

What is elator the alternative form of?
Elator is the alternative form of elater.

Words near elator in the dictionary

  1. elations
  2. elative
  3. elative case
  4. elative cases
  5. elatives
  6. elator
  7. elators
  8. elattostasis
  9. elayl
  10. Elazar
  11. Elazig

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