elater

English

Etymology 1

From elate ‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈleɪ.tə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈleɪ.tɚ/
• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

elater (plural elaters)

1. That which elates.

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛl.ə.tə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛl.ə.tɚ/

Noun

elater (plural elaters)

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.
   • 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:

     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 […]

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

References

• “elater”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Aertel, Ertale, Tralee, alreet, e-alert, earlet, relate, telera