clavigers

clavigers is the plural of claviger.

Meaning of claviger

claviger (plural clavigers)

One who carries a club; a club bearer.
- They goaded him into testing one of his planes, tricked him into throwing one out of the window to see if it would glide, and it did; it glided right into a claviger patrolling outside.2013, Elon Dann, Clockwise to Titan
A group within genus Lasius (formerly considered a subgenera Acanthomyops) of bright yellow to orange species of ant that have 3 maxillary palps and give off a distinctive citronella odor when disturbed. The group name comes from their club-shaped palps.
- Standing body hairs are relatively less numerous and longer in claviger.1968, Merle Wesley Wing, Taxonomic Revision of the Nearctic Genus Acanthomyops, page 81
A species of mosquito, Anopheles claviger.
- Over much of its range claviger lays eggs without a blood meal, whereas forms requiring blood for egg laying have been observed on the Black Sea coast.1949, Agriculture Handbook - Issue 152, page 117

claviger (plural clavigers)

One who carries the keys to a place; a keyholder.
- They were incensed that the claviger Bernat Mola not only slept in the church, but that by night he allowed “dishonest people and tricksters” in to gamble.2010, Ronald Stansbury, A Companion to Pastoral Care in the Late Middle Ages (1200-1500)

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