Claviform

Quick meaning: Claviform is an adjective meaning (palaeography) An image or symbol which is club-shaped, that is, larger at the tip than at the base.

Meaning

(palaeography) An image or symbol which is club-shaped, that is, larger at the tip than at the base.

More Meanings

1. Key-shaped.
2. (chiefly biology) Larger at the tip than at the base; club-shaped.
3. (chiefly biology) Shaped like a nail (“a metallic spike-shaped fastener”).

Example Sentences

Two other claviform tentacula arise from the anterior superior part of the mantle [of sea slugs of the genus Doris].

Solanum contumazaense [...] Style 10–11 mm long, exerted 4 mm, sparsely papillose below center; stigma claviform, light green.

They vary in shape from filiform (thread-shaped) or claviform (club-shaped) to capitate (with a terminal knob) or moniliform (with a series of knobs).

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.

Word Forms

• claviforms

Synonyms for claviform

Depending on context, synonyms include clavate, clubbed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sac, clavate, clavariaceous, clavarioid, disciform, clavicipitaceous.

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