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

Partial veil superior, forming a pendulous ring round the apex of the subequal or clavate stem.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

From the first these two processes are applied firmly one to the other by their extremities; they increase in size, become clavate, and constitute together a fusiform body placed across the two conjugated filaments.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

P. 4-7 cm. campan. then exp. glutinous, ochre, shining when dry; g. adnate, eroded, violet then cinnamon; s. clavate, silky lilac, tawny fibrillose, 6-9 cm.; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Pappus simple, coarse and rigid, the stronger bristles somewhat clavate; scales rigid, more or less foliaceous, nearly equal.

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

The extremity becomes clavate or swollen, after the manner of a vesicle, which receives by degrees the whole of the protoplasm.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)