club-shapedadj.
/ˈklʌbʃeɪpt/ Having the shape of a club; thickening towards one extremity which is blunt and rounded; in Zoology and Botany = clavate adj.
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plummet-like1605
semilunar1681
cordated1698
cordate1760
obcordate1775
club-shaped1776
flabelliform1777
obovate1785
button-shaped1791
clavate1803
placentiform?a1808
obovoid1819
valviform1819
constricted1826
vulviform1829
mitrate1836
bipenniform1842
sandaliform1848
scopiform1852
obclavate1856
obcordiform1857
oboval1857
utriform1860
broadsword-shaped1870
placentoid1885
hypsiloid1886
1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) IV. 200 Stem light grey, reticulated, club-shaped.
1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 350 Their antennæ are short and filiform, but those of the female somewhat club-shaped.
1874 J. G. Wood Out of Doors 485 In the true Tortoises the feet are club-shaped.
1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 325 The club-shaped asci of Lichens.
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