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elater
elater is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who, or that which, elates. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 6 senses
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- 1noun
One who, or that which, elates.
- 2noun
An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
The caudal spring used by Podura and related insects for leaping. See Collembola.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
any of various widely distributed beetles
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