clavate
Americanadjective
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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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Stipe long, slender, brown or blackish, arising from a small circular hypothallus; columella clavate, obtuse, not reaching the center of the sporangium.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan
The final conditions are small clavate bodies of the order Sphæriacei, belonging to the genus Claviceps.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
Lip fan-shaped, 3-parted above the stalk-like base, the divisions erosely fringed; flowers purple; anther-cells widely separated, little divergent, the orbicular glands oblique; ovary contracted only at the summit; the long curving spur somewhat clavate.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Receptacle pileate or clavate, impervious in the centre, stipitate, covered with hymenium, which is deeply folded and pitted.—Cooke.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
These curious fungi partake more or less of a clavate form, and are parasitic on insects.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
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