Elater

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /ˈɛl.É™.tÉ™/
• GenAm IPA: /ˈɛl.É™.tÉš/

elate + -er

Full definition of elater

Noun

1. That which elates.

From New Latin elater, from Ancient Greek ἐλατήρ (elater, "driver, that which drives away")

Noun

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.
• Schuster Hepaticae V|4The 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.

Derived terms

• pseudoelater

Anagrams

• Aertel, alreet, earlet, relate, Tralee