Meaning

5 senses

  1. That which elates.

  2. A long, slender cell produced among spores and having hygroscopic secondary cell wall thickenings.

  3. Any of the long, slender hygroscopic appendages attached to the spores of horsetails (genus Equisetum).

  4. An elaterid, or click beetle.

  5. (obsolete)Elasticity; especially the expansibility of a gas.

More definitions
  • any of various widely distributed beetles

Origin

From elate + -er. From New Latin elatēr, from Ancient Greek ἐλατήρ (elatḗr, “driver, that

From elate + -er.

From New Latin elatēr, from Ancient Greek ἐλατήρ (elatḗr, “driver, that which drives away”).

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Forms

plural: elaters
Singularelater
Pluralelaters

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Derivedpseudoelater

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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