clavate

[ kley-veyt ]

adjective

1. club-shaped; claviform.

clavate

/ -vɪt; ˈkleɪveɪt; ˈklævɪfɔːm /

adjective

1. shaped like a club with the thicker end uppermost

Derived Forms

• ˈclavately, adverb

Other Words From

• clavate·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of clavate¹

1655–65; < New Latin clāvātus, equivalent to Late Latin clāv ( a ) club + -ātus -ate ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of clavate¹

C19: from Latin clāva club

Example Sentences

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

From Project Gutenberg

Lip 3-parted above the stalk-like base, the divisions cut into capillary fringes; flowers greenish- or yellowish-white; anther-cells not very divergent, the beaked bases projecting forward; the large glands oval or lanceolate, nearly facing each other; ovary short-tapering above; spurs long, clavate.

From Project Gutenberg

Lip fan-shaped, 3-parted above the stalk-like base, the divisions erosely fringed; flowers purple; anther-cells widely separated, little divergent, the orbicular glands oblique; ovary contracted only at the summit; the long curving spur somewhat clavate.

From Project Gutenberg

Culms very slender, 6–15´ high; leaves and elongated involucre very narrow; spikelets few to many on the 4–8 rays, linear, acute, 2–9´´ long; scales thin, ovate, acute, closely imbricated, pale brown; stamens 2; achene linear-oblong or clavate, short-pointed, grayish and minutely pitted.

From Project Gutenberg

Rather weak, 1° high or less; leaves flat and firm, persisting through the winter, at least twice longer than the culm; a sheathing purple scale at the base of the spike; staminate spike about 1´ long, clavate in anthesis, the purple scales ending in a very short and blunt whitish tip; pistillate spike narrower and mostly longer, the scales more abruptly contracted into a colored cusp and at length deciduous; perigynium obovate, much contracted below into a stipe-like base, very strongly nerved, entirely pointless, hairy above, covered by the scale.

From Project Gutenberg