1) Beetle 2) Beetle type 3) Bringer of good news 4) Bringer of happiness 5) Bringer of joy 6) Cheerer-up 7) Cheery beetle 8) Click beetle 9) Day maker 10) Elasticity 11) Elaterid 12) Elaterid beetle 13) Filamentous plant structure 14) Good-news beetle 15) Joy-bringer 16) Noisy beetle 17) One might give you a lift
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1) Elaterid 2) Firefly
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An elater is a cell (or structure attached to a cell) that is hygroscopic, and therefore will change shape in response to changes in moisture in the environment. Elaters come in a variety of forms, but are always associated with plant spores. In plants that do not have seeds, they function in dispersing the spores to a new location. == Horsetail e...
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• (n.) 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. • (n.) Any beetle of the family Elateridae, having the habit, when laid o...
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(from the article `bryophyte`) ...the sporangium above the calyptra that protected it. Elongation is rapid, and the seta is held erect by water pressure within its cells. The ... Sphenophytes are homosporous, producing only one kind of spore. The spores have four bands, or elaters, which coil and uncoil in response to changes ... [2 ...
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An elongated, spirally thickened, water-attracting cell in the capsule of a liverwort, derived from sporogenous tissue and assisting in spore dispersal. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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A winglike or straplike appendage on a spore adapted for wind dispersal.
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El'a·ter noun [ New Latin , from Greek ... driver, from ... to drive.]
1. (Botany) An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts.
2. (Zoology) Any beetle of the family
Elateridæ , having the habit, when laid on the back, of givi...
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El'a·ter noun (Chemistry) 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 purgat...
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E·lat'er noun One who, or that which, elates.
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A cell or part of a cell which assists in dispersing spores. The elaters change shape as they lose or acquire water, and they will then push against surrounding spores.
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A cell or part of a cell which assists in dispersing spores. The elaters change shape as they lose or acquire water, and they will then push against surrounding spores.
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an elastic filament serving to disperse spores. · elaterid. · elasticity.
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