English Explanatory Dictionary

clavate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Resembling a club, becoming increasingly wide from the base to the distal end.

Word forms

clavate more clavate most clavate

Etymology

First attested in 1661; borrowed from New Latin clāvātus, from Latin clāva (“club”) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, clav(a) + -ate.

Synonyms

claviform clubbed

Related words

flabellate lamellate capitate

Derived words

obclavate subclavate
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