Usually means: Spring-loaded device for dispersal.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. elater: Merriam-Webster
  2. elater: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. elater: Collins English Dictionary
  4. elater: Vocabulary.com
  5. elater: Wordnik
  6. elater: Wiktionary
  7. elater: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. elater: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. elater: Dictionary.com
  10. Elater (beetle), Elater: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Elater: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. elater: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. elater: Rhymezone
  14. Elater: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. elater: FreeDictionary.org
  16. elater: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. elater: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elater: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. elater: Natural History Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (elater)

noun:  That which elates.
noun:  (obsolete) Elasticity; especially the expansibility of a gas.
noun:  (botany) A long, slender cell produced among spores and having hygroscopic secondary cell wall thickenings.
noun:  (botany) Any of the long, slender hygroscopic appendages attached to the spores of horsetails (genus Equisetum).
noun:  (zoology) An elaterid, or click beetle.

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