clavigerous

Adjective

clavigerous (not comparable)

1. Bearing a club.
   • It seems probable that the famous 'Cerne Giant'—a colossal human figure wielding a club—which is cut in the chalk on the hill-side east of Cerne Abbas in Dorsetshire, may belong to the Bronze Age and be connected with phallus-worship. […] it is petrographic, colossal, nude, ithyphallic, and...1907, T.R. Holmes, Ancient Britain, page 207
   • Twenty-five drawings of a clavigerous lion guarding a rather imbecile teenage Britannia.1968, Anthony Burgess, Enderby Outside
2. Bearing a key.
   • Is it really more knowledge we want, or more understanding? Are we in fact clavigerous and fail to realize the aperient properties of that which is in our hand?1927, Psyche - Volume 7, page 2
3. Club-like.
   • Histioteuthids.—Teuthidoid Decaceres with the six upper arms connected by a very extensive web, without lachrymal sinuses, a siphon without valve or dorsal bridle, without nuchal crests, long claviegerous tentacular arms "bearing large central, and small marginal suckers and tubercles." buccal...1883, Theodore Gill, “Zoology”, in Spencer F. Baird, editor, Record of Scientific Progress for 1882
   • Sensillus a clavigerous bristle , only club of which projects beyond border of pteromorphae.1956, Leonard Dale Tuthill, Psyllidae of Pacific Entomological Survey, page 141