Crossword-Solution: ELATER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Elater | n. | One who, or that which, elates. |
| Elater | n. | An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts. |
| Elater | n. | Any beetle of the family Elateridae, having the habit, when laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of the articulation between the abdomen and thorax; -- called also click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping beetle. |
| Elater | n. | The caudal spring used by Podura and related insects for leaping. See Collembola. |
| Elater | 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ELATER | anagram | ALERTE, EALERT, EARLET, ETALER, LEERAT, REELAT, RELATE, TEARLE, TRALEE |
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The old plural of Eye.
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Sentences with ELATER (5)
CHAPTER II RIO DE JANEIRO Rio de Janeiro--Excursion north of Cape Frio--Great Evaporation--Slavery--Botofogo Bay--Terrestrial Planariae--Clouds on the Corcovado--Heavy Rain--Musical Frogs--Phosphorescent Insects--Elater, springing powers of--Blue Haze--Noise made by a Butterfly--Entomology--Ants--Wasp killing a Spider--Parasitical Spider--Artifices of an Epeira--Gregarious Spider--Spider with an unsymmetrical Web.
When we were at Bahia, an elater or beetle (Pyrophorus luminosus, Illig.) seemed the most common luminous insect.
CHAPTER II Rio de Janeiro — Excursion north of Cape Frio — Great Evaporation — Slavery — Botofogo Bay — Terrestrial Planariæ — Clouds on the Corcovado — Heavy Rain — Musical Frogs — Phosphorescent insects — Elater, springing powers of — Blue Haze — Noise made by a Butterfly — Entomology — Ants — Wasp killing a Spider — Parasitical Spider — Artifices of an Epeira — Gregarious Spider — Spider with an unsymmetrical web.
Westwood declares that they comprise both wood-eating and herb-devouring beetles, of the Linnean genera _Elater, Carabus,_ etc., besides grasshoppers (_Gryllus_), and detached wings of dragon-flies and may-flies, or insects referable to the Linnean genera _Libellula, Ephemera, Hemerobius,_ and _Panorpa,_ in all belonging to no less than twenty-four families.
The night was delightfully cool; swarms of phosphorescent insects* glistened in the air (* Elater noctilucus.
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Used 41 times in crossword archives (1942–2016).