obclavate

[ ob-kley-veyt ]

adjective

1. inversely clavate.

Word History and Origins

Origin of obclavate¹

From New Latin, dating back to 1855–60; ob-, clavate

Example Sentences

Fruit broadly oval or obovate, like Pastinaca, but with a thick conical stylopodium, and the conspicuous obclavate oil-tubes extending scarcely below the middle.—Tall stout perennial, with large ternately compound leaves, broad umbels, deciduous involucre, and many-leaved involucels, white flowers, and obcordate petals, the outer ones commonly larger and 2-cleft.

From Project Gutenberg

P. 8-15 cm. soon exp. viscid, yellowish with darker squamules; g. white, edge yellow; s. solid, obclavate; sp. subglobose, 5-6.

From Project Gutenberg

Stem mostly obclavate, inversely club-shaped, and reticulate to the base.

From Project Gutenberg