Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume DE

Elaborated adj. developed or executed with care and in minute detail; as, the carefully elaborated theme.

Syn. -- Detailed, elaborate.

E·lab`o·ra"tion (?), n. [L. elaboratio: cf. F. élaboration.]

1. The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.

2. (Physiol.) The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.

E·lab"o·ra·tive (?), a. Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details.

-- Elaborative faculty (Metaph.), the intellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought.

E·lab"o·ra`tor (?), n. One who, or that which, elaborates.

E·lab"o·ra·to·ry (?), a. Tending to elaborate.

E·lab"o·ra·to·ry, n. A laboratory. [Obs.]

E`læ·ag"nus (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a Bœotian marsh plant; ? olive + ? sacred, pure.] (Bot.) A genus of shrubs or small trees, having the foliage covered with small silvery scales; oleaster.

E·læ"is (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? olive tree.] (Bot.) A genus of palms.

Elæis Guineensis, the African oil palm, is a tree twenty or thirty feet high, with immense pinnate leaves and large masses of fruit. The berries are rather larger than olives, and when boiled in water yield the orange-red palm oil.

E·læ"o·lite (?), n. [Gr. ? olive oil, oil + -lite.] (Min.) A variety of hephelite, usually massive, of greasy luster, and gray to reddish color.

-- Elæolite syenite, a kind of syenite characterized by the presence of elæolite.