Elater vs Psuedoelaters - What's the difference?
elater | psuedoelaters |
(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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(botany) Any of the long, slender hygroscopic appendages attached to the spores of horsetails (genus Equisetum ).
(zoology) An elaterid, or click beetle.
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(en noun)- 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