Elater
Elater İngilizce anlamı ve tanımı
Elater anlamları
- (noun) The active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica Elaterium) and other related species. It is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative.
- (noun) Any beetle of the family Elateridae, having the habit, when laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of the articulation between the abdomen and thorax; -- called also click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping beetle.
- (noun) One who, or that which, elates.
- (noun) The caudal spring used by Podura and related insects for leaping. See Collembola.
- (noun) An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts.
Elater tanım:
Kelime: el·a·ter
Söyleniş: 'e-l&-t&r
İşlev: noun
Kökeni: New Latin, from Greek elatEr driver, from elaunein to drive
: a plant structure functioning in the distribution of spores: as a : one of the elongated filaments among the spores in the capsule of a liverwort b : one of the filamentous appendages of the spores in the scouring rushes