Definition of elaters:
(n) :
(zoology) An elaterid, or click beetle.
(n) :
That which elates.
(n) :
(botany) A long, slender cell produced among spores and having hygroscopic secondary cell wall thickenings.
(n) :
(botany) Any of the long, slender hygroscopic appendages attached to the spores of horsetails (genus Equisetum).
(n) :
(obsolete) Elasticity; especially the expansibility of a gas.