Pronunciation: ' e-l ə -t ə r
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Greek elat ē r 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