elater (English, noun)
expansion: elater (plural elaters)
Senses:
glosses: Elasticity; especially the expansibility of a gas.
tags: obsolete
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A long, slender cell produced among spores and having hygroscopic secondary cell wall thickenings.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the long, slender hygroscopic appendages attached to the spores of horsetails (genus Equisetum).
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An elaterid, or click beetle.
Forms:
form: elaters
tags: plural