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

Involucre pendulous, subterranean, clavate or subcylindric, fleshy, hairy, attached to the stem by one side of its mouth.

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 Gray, Asa

P. exp. gibbous, hoary-shining; g. decur. edge wavy, rather distant, tan; s. bulbous, clavate, obsoletely violet, viscid.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

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 Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

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 Massee, George

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 Gray, Asa