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Equisetum vs Elater - What's the difference?

equisetum | elater |

As nouns the difference between equisetum and elater

is that equisetum is the horsetail (plant of genus equisetum ) while elater is that which elates or elater can be (obsolete) elasticity; especially the expansibility of a gas.

equisetum

English

(wikipedia equisetum) (wikispecies)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The horsetail (plant of genus Equisetum )

    • elater

    English

    (wikipedia elater)

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which elates.

    • Etymology 2

    From

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Elasticity; especially the expansibility of a gas.
  • (botany) A long, slender cell produced among spores and having hygroscopic secondary cell wall thickenings.
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    • The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The two families share in common: (a ) elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally
  • (botany) Any of the long, slender hygroscopic appendages attached to the spores of horsetails (genus Equisetum ).
  • (zoology) An elaterid, or click beetle.
    • Derived terms
    * pseudoelater

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