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hygroscopic
English
Etymology
From French hygroscopique
Adjective
hygroscopic (comparative more hygroscopic, superlative most hygroscopic)
- (physics, chemistry) Readily taking up and retaining water, especially from the atmosphere.
Antonyms
- anhygroscopic
Related terms
- hygroscopy
- hygroscopicity
- hygroscope
- hygroscopically
Translations
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elater
English
Etymology 1
elate +? -er
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??le?.t?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??le?.t?/
Noun
elater (plural elaters)
- 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)
- (obsolete) Elasticity; especially the expansibility of a gas.
- (botany) A long, slender cell produced among spores and having hygroscopic secondary cell wall thickenings.
- (botany) Any of the long, slender hygroscopic appendages attached to the spores of horsetails (genus Equisetum).
- (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
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