different between horsetail vs elater

English

Alternative forms

• horse tail

Etymology

From Middle English horsetaile, horstaile, equivalent to horse +? tail.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h??(?)s.te?l/

Noun

horsetail (plural horsetails)

1. (literally) The tail of a horse. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. (botany) Any of various simple vascular plants, of the order Equisetales, that have hollow stems and produce spores.
3. (military) A Turkish standard denoting rank.

4. (botany) A mare's tail, a water plant in genus Hippuris.
5. Any waterfall, the descending water of which maintains contact with bedrock most of the time.
6. (anatomy) cauda equina, a bundle of nerve fibers.
7. (rare) A ponytail hairstyle.
   • 2011, George Romero, The Rescue (page 160)

     They were psychic mediums that wore a horsetail hairstyle. They believed that their long hair acted as cosmic antennae to receive alien communication from beyond.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Equisetum
• Equisetum subg. Hippochaete (syn. Hippochaete)
• scouring rush

Further reading

• horse tail on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Equisetum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Equisetum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Equisetum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• aeroliths, isotheral

English

Etymology 1

elate +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??le?.t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??le?.t?/

Noun

elater (plural elaters)

1. That which elates.

Etymology 2

From New Latin elat?r, from Ancient Greek ?????? (elat?r, “driver, that which drives away”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??l.?.t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??l.?.t?/

Noun

elater (plural elaters)

1. (obsolete) Elasticity; especially the expansibility of a gas.
2. (botany) A long, slender cell produced among spores and having hygroscopic secondary cell wall thickenings.
3. (botany) Any of the long, slender hygroscopic appendages attached to the spores of horsetails (genus Equisetum).
4. (zoology) An elaterid, or click beetle.

Derived terms

• pseudoelater

References

• elater in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Aertel, Ertale, Tralee, alreet, e-alert, earlet, relate, telera