clavate

American  

[kley-veyt] / ˈkleɪ veɪt /

adjective

1. club-shaped; claviform.

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clavate British  

/ -vɪt, ˈkleɪveɪt, ˈklævɪfɔːm /

adjective

1. 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

P. 6-9 cm. compact, convexo-plane, obtuse, fuscous-cinnamon, fibrillose; g. very broad, lilac then tan; s. 6-9 cm. solid, clavate, colour of p. then tawny-yellow, fibrils and veil fuscous; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

The extremity becomes clavate or swollen, after the manner of a vesicle, which receives by degrees the whole of the protoplasm.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

The plant is quite large, clavate in form, the head oblong, round, slightly tapering upward with a decided protuberance at the apex, as will be seen in Figure 491.

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

P. 4.5-7 cm. s. 4-7 cm. base clavate; sp. 6-7 � 4-5.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

These latter were broadest towards the apex, so as to be almost clavate, and the extremity was beset with two or three short spicules.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)