claviform

[ klav-uh-fawrm ]

adjective

1. club-shaped; clavate.

claviform

/ ˈklævɪˌfɔːm /

adjective

1. another word for clavate

Word History and Origins

Origin of claviform¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of claviform¹

C19: from Latin clāva club

Example Sentences

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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