Usually means: Shaped like a club; thickened.
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  1. clavate: Merriam-Webster
  2. clavate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clavate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. clavate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. clavate: Wordnik
  6. clavate: Wiktionary
  7. clavate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. clavate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. clavate: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. clavate: Dictionary.com
  11. Clavate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Clavate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. Clavate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. clavate: FreeDictionary.org
  15. clavate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. clavate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. clavate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. clavate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. clavate: Medical dictionary

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  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  4. Clavate: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  5. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (clavate)

▸ adjective:  (biology) Resembling a club, becoming increasingly wide from the base to the distal end.

Similar:
claviform, clavarioid, clavicipitaceous, stem-clasping, clavariaceous, subulate, clavicepitaceous, ligulate, amplectant, acuminate, more...

Opposite:
acuate, tapering, pointed, sharp

Adjectives:
short, long, joint, more, first, column, basitarsus, spored, female, male, numerous

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Similar:
claviform, clavarioid, clavicipitaceous, stem-clasping, clavariaceous, subulate, clavicepitaceous, ligulate, amplectant, acuminate, more...

Opposite:
acuate, tapering, pointed, sharp

Adjectives:
short, long, joint, more, first, column, basitarsus, spored, female, male, numerous



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