calviform

Adjective (1)

claviform (comparative more claviform, superlative most claviform)

1. Larger at the tip than at the base; club-shaped.
   • Claviform is the reverse of stalactitic; it is composed of club-shaped parallel rods which adhere by their thin extremities. Examples, brown and black hæmatite.1805, Robert Jameson, “Particular Generic External Characters”, in A Treatise on the External Characters of Minerals, Edinburgh: […] University Press for Bell & Bradfute, Guthrie & Tait, and...

   Synonyms:

   clavate, clubbed

Adjective (2)

claviform (comparative more claviform, superlative most claviform)

1. Shaped like a nail (“a metallic spike-shaped fastener”).
   • CLAVOPORA Busk, 1874. Colony small, erect, coriaceous, claviform (nail-shaped), with two well differentiated parts: [...]1988, M. Zabala, P. Maluquer, Illustrated Keys for the Classification of Mediterranean Bryozoa (Treballs del Museu de Zoologia; no. 4), Barcelona: Museu de Zoologia, Ajuntament de Barcelona, →ISBN...

Adjective (3)

claviform (comparative more claviform, superlative most claviform)

1. Key-shaped.
   • The signs can be sorted out into two main classes: those which are paired or 'coupled' [...] and those which stand alone—mostly tectiform (roof-shaped) and claviform (key-shaped). There seems to be a conventional arrangement whereby certain signs are placed at the beginning of a 'sanctuary'.1961, Alan Houghton Brodrick, Casual Change, London: Hutchinson, →OCLC, page 159

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