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clavate

clavate adjective: resembling a club, becoming increasingly wide from the base to the distal end.

Adjective

clavate (comparative more clavate, superlative most clavate)

  1. Resembling a club, becoming increasingly wide from the base to the distal end.
    • an organism with clavate antennae
    Synonyms:
    claviform, clubbed

Synonyms of clavate

Forms of clavate

comparativemore clavate
superlativemost clavate

Origin of clavate

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.

Words formed from clavate

Questions about clavate

What does clavate mean?
Clavate means resembling a club, becoming increasingly wide from the base to the distal end.
What part of speech is clavate?
Clavate is an adjective.

Words near clavate in the dictionary

  1. clavarial
  2. clavaric acid
  3. clavarioid
  4. clavarioid fungi
  5. clavarioid fungus
  6. clavate
  7. clavated
  8. clavately
  9. clavatin
  10. clavatine
  11. clavatines

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