clavate

American  

[kley-veyt] / ˈkleɪ veɪt /

adjective

1. club-shaped; claviform.

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clavate British  

/ -vɪt, ˈkleɪveɪt, ˈklævɪfɔːm /

adjective

1. shaped like a club with the thicker end uppermost

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Other Word Forms

• clavately
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of clavate

1655–65; < New Latin clāvātus, equivalent to Late Latin clāv ( a ) club + -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Partial veil superior, forming a pendulous ring round the apex of the subequal or clavate stem.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. plane, rather wavy, olive, edge yellowish, disc with brown granules; g. adnexed, thin, eroded, white then rusty olive; s. clavate, brownish squamulose below. infractus, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Stipe long, erect, white or yellowish to brown; the columella elongated, obovoid to clavate, roughened, colored as the stipe.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

These bend together over the clavate extremity, and are then employed, instead of the thin end of the body, in adhering to the cavity of the sheltering Medusa.

From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry

The shape of the individual sporangium is quite uniformly clavate or obovate, decidedly truncate above.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)