clavate

American

[kley-veyt] / ˈkleɪ veɪt /

adjective

club-shaped; claviform.

clavate British

/ -vɪt, ˈkleɪveɪt, ˈklævɪfɔːm /

adjective

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

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Under Nectri�i we have the following genera: Stipitate— Clavate or capitate Cordyceps.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

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