clavate
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of clavate
1655–65; < New Latin clāvātus, equivalent to Late Latin clāv ( a ) club + -ātus -ate 1
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Some species of Isaria and Torrubia also affect the larvæ and pupæ of moths and butterflies, converting the whole interior into a mass of mycelium, and fructifying in a clavate head.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
The paraphyses are few, short, separate, clavate, and brownish at the tips.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
P. 4-7 cm. campan. then exp. glutinous, ochre, shining when dry; g. adnate, eroded, violet then cinnamon; s. clavate, silky lilac, tawny fibrillose, 6-9 cm.; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
From the first these two processes are applied firmly one to the other by their extremities; they increase in size, become clavate, and constitute together a fusiform body placed across the two conjugated filaments.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
In some the receptacle is pileate, clavate, or inflated, whilst in Stictis it is very much reduced, and in the lowest form of all, Ascomyces, it is entirely absent.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
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