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  1. elaters: Merriam-Webster
  2. elaters: Collins English Dictionary
  3. elaters: Vocabulary.com
  4. elaters: Wordnik
  5. elaters: Wiktionary
  6. elaters: Dictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (elater)

noun:  That which elates.
noun:  (obsolete) Elasticity; especially the expansibility of a gas.
noun:  (botany) A long, slender cell produced among spores and having hygroscopic secondary cell wall thickenings.
noun:  (botany) Any of the long, slender hygroscopic appendages attached to the spores of horsetails (genus Equisetum).
noun:  (zoology) An elaterid, or click beetle.
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