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Definition of Clavate
1. a. Club-shaped; having the form of a club; growing gradually thicker toward the top. [See Illust. of Antennae.]
Definition of Clavate
1. Adjective. Resembling a club, becoming increasingly wide from the base to the distal end. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clavate
1. shaped like a club [adj]
Medical Definition of Clavate
1. Club-shaped. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clavate
Literary usage of Clavate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Entomologia Edinensis by James Wilson, James Duncan (1834)
"... mouth ferruginous, the palpi and antennae of the same colour, the penultimate
joint of the maxillary palpi large and clavate : thorax elongate, ..."
2. A Manual of British Lichens: Containing Descriptions of All the Species and by William Mudd (1861)
"... S spored ; spores linear-clavate, the extremities rounded, ... spores obovate
or linear-clavate ; otherwise as above. ..."
3. Botanical Miscellany: Containing Figures and Descriptions of Such Plants as by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1831)
"Stigma clavate. This is a beautiful species, at once distinguishable by its long
pendulous corymbs. ..."
4. Manual of the Mosses of North America by Leo Lesquereux, Thomas Potts James (1884)
"clavate. Calyptra split its whole length on one side and opened, generally
remaining attached to the pedicel by its constricted base. ..."
5. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1899)
"differing chiefly in the longer and more pointed cylindrical-oblong or fusiform-clavate
involucres, which in the latter species are commonly pyriform. ..."
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