claviform

American

[klav-uh-fawrm] / ˈklæv əˌfɔrm /

adjective

club-shaped; clavate.

claviform British

/ ˈklævɪˌfɔːm /

adjective

another word for clavate

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Etymology

Origin of claviform

1810–20; < Late Latin clāv ( a ) club + -i- + -form

Example Sentences

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The tarsi are five-jointed, the front and middle pair with a row of claviform membraneous appendages each side, which Le Conte found only in the male.

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Extinct; phragmacone with widely separated septa; rostrum well developed and claviform.

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Claviform: club-like in form; specifically, in Noctuid moths an elongate spot or mark extending from the t. a. line through the submedian interspace, toward and sometimes to the t.p. line.

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Polymorpha: the claviform and serricorn Coleoptera, as a whole.

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