clavate

English

Adjective

clavate (comparative more clavate, superlative most clavate)

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

Synonyms

clubbed

Translations

resembling a club

Bulgarian: с форма на бухалка (s forma na buhalka)

Hungarian: buzogányos, bunkós (hu)

Usage notes

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

See also

Latin

Adjective

clāvāte

vocative masculine singular of clāvātus

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