clavate
Americanadjective
adjective
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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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Partial veil superior, forming a pendulous ring round the apex of the subequal or clavate stem.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
The plants are small, sessile, or attached by a very short stem; closed at first, then expanding until nearly plane; disk yellow, smooth; asci clavate, 8 spored; spores hyaline, smooth.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
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 Asa Gray
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 George Massee
In the middle of these, and from the same filaments, are generated elongated clavate cells, with paler contents, more vacuoles, which Tulasne names paracysts.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
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