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Elater  n.  (Chem.) 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.





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... the source whence the fresh water was derived. After studying 300 specimens of these insects from the Lias, Mr. Westwood declares that they comprise both wood-eating and herb-devouring beetles, of the Linnean genera Elater, Carabus, etc., besides grasshoppers (Gryllus), and detached wings of dragon-flies and may-flies, or insects referable to the Linnean genera Libellula, Ephemera, Hemerobius, and Panorpa, in all belonging ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell


Words linked to "Elater" :   fire beetle, skipjack, elaterid, click beetle, Elateridae, Pyrophorus noctiluca, elaterid beetle, beetle, snapping beetle, family Elateridae


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