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Wireworm :: Wireworm (n.) One of the larvae of various species of snapping beetles, or elaters; -- so called from their slenderness and the uncommon hardness of the integument. Wireworms are sometimes very destructive to the roots of plants. Called also wire grub..

Elater :: Elater (n.) 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..

Elater :: Elater (n.) 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..

Elater :: Elater (n.) One who, or that which, elates..

Elaterometer :: Elaterometer (n.) Same as Elatrometer.

Relater :: Relater (n.) One who relates or narrates.

Elater :: Elater (n.) An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts..

Storify :: Storier (n.) A relater of stories; an historian.

Fire Beetle :: Fire beetle () A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central and South America; -- called also cucujo. The name is also applied to other species. See Firefly..

Raconteur :: Raconteur (n.) A relater; a storyteller.

Elater :: Elater (n.) The caudal spring used by Podura and related insects for leaping. See Collembola.

Relator :: Relator (n.) One who relates; a relater.

Click Beetle :: Click beetle () See Elater.

Elatery :: Elatery (n.) Acting force; elasticity.

Elaterium :: Elaterium (n.) A cathartic substance obtained, in the form of yellowish or greenish cakes, as the dried residue of the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly called Momordica Elaterium)..

Elaterite :: Elaterite (n.) A mineral resin, of a blackish brown color, occurring in soft, flexible masses; -- called also mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen..

Ecballium :: Ecballium (n.) A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared..

Neverthelater :: Neverthelater (adv. / conj.) Nevertheless.

Skipjack :: Skipjack (n.) An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle..

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