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clavate, a.|ˈkleɪveɪt|
[ad. L. clāvāt-us, pa. pple. of clāvāre to stud with nails or knobs (cf. Pliny H.N. ix. 36 ‘genus concharum clavatum’), f. clāvus nail. In sense 2 taken as f. clāva club (a doubtful Latin use).]
†1. Studded with nails or knobs, knobbed. Obs.
1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd., Fishes..clavate, spinose, rough.
2. Chiefly Zool. and Bot. Club-shaped; thickened towards the apex like a club. Hence ˈclavately adv.
1813Bingley Anim. Biog. (ed. 4) III. 126 Of the Silphæ, or Carrion Beetles..Their antennæ are clavate, and the club is perfoliate. 1835Lindley Introd. Bot. (1868) I. 342 The filament..is thickest at the upper end, or clavate. 1872H. C. Wood Fresh-w. Algæ 176 Clavately swollen. 1884Lesquereux & James Mosses N. Amer. 12 Male flowers..borne upon clavate and catkin-like generally colored branches. 1950E. J. H. Corner Monogr. Clavaria 47 The fruit-body becomes obtusely clavate. |