clavate
Americanadjective
adjective
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
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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 Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
Differs from C. anomalus in clavate s. and flattened p. anomalus, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
These bend together over the clavate extremity, and are then employed, instead of the thin end of the body, in adhering to the cavity of the sheltering Medusa.
From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry
Stipe long, erect, white or yellowish to brown; the columella elongated, obovoid to clavate, roughened, colored as the stipe.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)
P. 6-9 cm. yellowish-bay, edge at first bluish; s. clavate, 7 cm. apex hollow, mealy; g. rotundato-subdecur. largus, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
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