elater

/el-uh-ter/US // ˈɛl ə tər //UK // (ˈɛlətə) //

弹性,弹性的,弹性物质,弹性化

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : Botany. an elastic filament serving to disperse spores.
- : Zoology. elaterid.
- : Obsolete. elasticity.

Furthermore, the spirals may be smooth or spinulose the elater uniform throughout or enlarged betimes by nodes and swellings.
The capillitium is very even the taeniae closely wound, the elater-ends often furcate.
I have frequently watched the ants make use of these passages mined by the elater on these occasions.
It is the elater, or still more scientifically, the Pyrophorus noctilucus.
Hence their name of Elater (derived from the same root as the word elastic).