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

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)

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)

Sporangium obovoid to pyriform or turbinate, rarely clavate, stipitate; the wall thin, smooth and shining, colored as the spores and capillitium.

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

P. 3-5 cm. even bay brick-red when moist; g. emarginate, cinnamon with a fugacious tinge of flesh-colour violet; s. 4-5 cm. clavate, very fibrillose, one colour, becoming pale; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

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 Massee, George