Definitions for elater

elater el·a·ter

Spelling: [el-uh-ter]
IPA: /ˈɛl ə tər/

Elater is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in elater (aeelrt).

Definitions for elater

noun

  1. Botany. an elastic filament serving to disperse spores.
  2. Zoology. elaterid.
  3. Obsolete. elasticity.

Origin of elater

1645-55; New Latin Greek elatḗr driver, equivalent to ela- (stem of elaúnein to drive; see elastic) + -tēr noun suffix

Examples for elater

Furthermore, the spirals may be smooth or spinulose the elater uniform throughout or enlarged betimes by nodes and swellings.

It is the elater, or still more scientifically, the Pyrophorus noctilucus.

She doubtless has confounded it with the Cucujus, elater noctilucus.

Certain species of the elater beetles are familiar to every school-boy.

The most remarkable among the elater beetles is the cuculio, or fire-fly, of the tropics.

Hence their name of elater (derived from the same root as the word elastic).

A remarkable difference obtains between the larva of the wire-worm and that of elater undulatus.

I have frequently watched the ants make use of these passages mined by the elater on these occasions.

Word Value for elater
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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