Elaters is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ELATERS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• ELATER, a kind of beetle, aka skipjack beetle
• an elastic filament serving to disperse spores.
• elaterid.
• elasticity.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a click beetle

Words related to ELATERS

elater6

Words that contain ELATERS

relaters8

How to use ELATERS in a sentence

• Some of these become spore-mother-cells and give rise by cell division to four spores, while others remain undivided and become the elaters.
• In the higher forms a sterile foot and seta is present, and sterile cells or elaters occur with the spores.
• The sporogonium even in the simplest forms has a sterile foot, but in this series also the origin of elaters from sterile cells can be traced.
• The elaters serve as lines of conduction of plastic material to the developing spores, and later usually assist in their dispersal.
• In all other forms elaters with spirally thickened walls are found.
• The sporogonium has a small foot, but the sterile cells among the spores do not develop into elaters.

Similar words containing ELATER without suffix s

elater6 relater7 elaterid9 elaterin8 relaters8 elaterids10 elaterins9 elaterite9 elaterium11 elaterites10 elateriums12 ipselateral13

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