clavate

English

Etymology

From Latin clava (“club”).

Adjective

clavate (comparative more clavate, superlative most clavate)

1. (biology) Resembling a club, becoming increasingly wide from the base to the distal end.

   Synonyms: claviform, clubbed

   an organism with clavate antennae

Synonyms

• clubbed

Derived terms

• obclavate
• subclavate

 

Translations

resembling a club

• Bulgarian: с форма на бухалка (s forma na buhalka)
• Hungarian: buzogányos (hu), bunkós (hu)

See also

• flabellate
• lamellate
• capitate

Latin

Adjective

clāvāte

1. vocative masculine singular of clāvātus

Spanish

Verb

clavate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of clavar combined with te