elater

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ɪˈleɪ.tə/    美 /əˈleɪ.tɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. That which elates.
  2. Elasticity; especially the expansibility of a gas. obsolete
  3. 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[…]
  4. Any of the long, slender hygroscopic appendages attached to the spores of horsetails (genus Equisetum).
  5. An elaterid, or click beetle.

词形变化

elaters plural elaters plural

词汇关系

衍生词
pseudoelater

词源

词源 1
From elate + -er.
词源 2
From New Latin elatēr, from Ancient Greek ἐλατήρ (elatḗr, “driver, that which drives away”).
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