These are the meanings of the letters OREAELT when you unscramble them.
- Areole (n.)
Same as Areola.
- Elater (n.)
An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts.
- Elater (n.)
Any beetle of the family Elateridae, having the habit, when laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of the articulation between the abdomen and thorax; -- called also click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping beetle.
- Elater (n.)
One who, or that which, elates.
- Elater (n.)
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.
- Elater (n.)
The caudal spring used by Podura and related insects for leaping. See Collembola.
- Oleate (n.)
A salt of oleic acid. Some oleates, as the oleate of mercury, are used in medicine by way of inunction.
- Relate (v. i.)
To make reference; to take account.
- Relate (v. i.)
To stand in some relation; to have bearing or concern; to pertain; to refer; -- with to.
- Relate (v. t.)
To ally by connection or kindred.
- Relate (v. t.)
To bring back; to restore.
- Relate (v. t.)
To recount; to narrate; to tell over.
- Relate (v. t.)
To refer; to ascribe, as to a source.