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Definition of Elaters
1. elater [n] - See also: elater
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elaters
Literary usage of Elaters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Germination, Development, and Fructification of the Higher by Wilhelm Hofmeister, Frederick Currey (1862)
"in water the outer membrane, which is in the process of being transformed into
elaters, is coloured pale blue by iodized solution of chloride of zinc ..."
2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel (1905)
"The ' elaters ' also act to a certain extent it temporarily fastening the spores to
... 4 elaters' in Polypodium imbricatum. Within the sporangium of this ..."
3. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1855)
"... of Marchantia polymorpha, expresses himself in a note in the following terms:—"
The origin of the elaters would, I think, be a curious discovery. ..."
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