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clavate

American  
[klay-vayt] / ˈkleɪ veɪt /

adjective

  1. club-shaped; claviform.


clavate British  
/ ˈkleɪveɪt, -vɪt /

adjective

  1. shaped like a club with the thicker end uppermost

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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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P. 4-9 cm. convexo-plane, subumb. hygr. opaque, almost glabrous, yellow-brown; g. subadnate; s. 6-7 cm. clavate, almost glabrous, pallid, ring white; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

P. 7-9 cm. obtuse, brick-red then paler, margin silky then innately squamulose; g. adnate, broad, opaque, tan; s. 7-9 cm. clavate, spongy, adpressedly woolly below, middle fibrillose, apex silky, even, violet; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

P. 5-7 cm. convex, silky, at length broadly gibbous, whitish violet; g. serrulate, greyish violet; s. 4-5 cm. clavate, whitish violet, with a median ring-like zone; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

These latter were broadest towards the apex, so as to be almost clavate, and the extremity was beset with two or three short spicules.

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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