clavate

English

Adjective

clavate (comparative more clavate, superlative most clavate)

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

Synonyms

• clubbed

Translations

Usage notes

• Used in biology as a morphological description of structures such as antennae

See also

• flabellate
• lamellate
• capitate

Latin

Adjective

clāvāte

1. vocative masculine singular of clāvātus