ELATER


Meaning of ELATER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈe-lə-tər ]

noun

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek elatēr driver, from elaunein to drive

Date: 1830

: a plant structure functioning in the dispersal 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 horsetails

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.