elater

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun That which elates.
2. noun Elasticity; especially the expansibility of a gas.
3. noun A long, slender cell produced among spores and having hygroscopic secondary cell wall thickenings.
4. noun Any of the long, slender hygroscopic appendages attached to the spores of horsetails (genus Equisetum).
5. noun An elaterid, or click beetle.

Similar words

elaterid elaterid beetle exhilarant exhilarator ecstatic exultance exulting exultation exultancy excitive

Often followed by

noctilucus of is animi or

Word family

elaters