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

Differs from H. pudorinus and H. discoideus in clavate s. and red flesh.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Clavicorn, klav′i-korn, adj. having clavate antenn�.—n. a member of the Clavicornia, a group of Coleoptera or beetles.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

These bend together over the clavate extremity, and are then employed, instead of the thin end of the body, in adhering to the cavity of the sheltering Medusa.

From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry

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 Taylor, Thomas

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