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Elater

noun

Any of various widely distributed beetles. Synonyms: elaterid, elaterid beetle.

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Elateridae

family Elateridae

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... taeniae, are generally very uniform in thickness, distance from each other, and pitch, and in many species are further reenforced by minute longitudinal plications running from one spiral to the next. Furthermore, the spirals may be smooth or spinulose the elater uniform throughout or enlarged betimes by nodes and swellings. Taken altogether, the trichias with the species of the genus next following exhibit the highest degree of differentiation attained by ...

— The North American Slime-Moulds • Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

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