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
Example Sentences
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The youngest state of this parasitic Medusa observed by the author formed a ciliated body of clavate form, adhering to the cavity of the bell by means of the slender stalk in which it terminated.
From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse
Differs from C. anomalus in clavate s. and flattened p. anomalus, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
P. 3-5 cm. convex, obtuse, bright yellow; g. adnate, crowded, tawny then cinnamon; s. 4-5 cm. narrowed from clavate base, fibrillose, whitish or yellowish; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
The pileus is somewhat membranaceous, clavate, then conical, at length torn and revolute; at first rough with floccose scales, then naked; longitudinally cracked and furrowed, even at the apex.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
P. 6-9 cm. compact, convexo-plane, obtuse, fuscous-cinnamon, fibrillose; g. very broad, lilac then tan; s. 6-9 cm. solid, clavate, colour of p. then tawny-yellow, fibrils and veil fuscous; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
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