elater

  1. Noun.  (obsolete) Elasticity; especially the expansibility of a gas. (R:Century 1911, elater) .
  2. Noun.  (botany) A long, slender cell produced among spores and having hygroscopic secondary cell wall thickenings.
  3. Noun.  (botany) Long, slender hygroscopic appendages attached to the spores of horsetails (genus ''Equisetum'').

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