Meaning

One who carries a club; a club bearer..

Definitions by Sense

1. One who carries a club; a club bearer.
2. (entomology) 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.
3. (entomology) A species of mosquito, Anopheles claviger.
4. One who carries the keys to a place; a keyholder.

Example Sentences

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.

But he was the claviger, and he took that duty seriously. And he never helped her. He followed her, to protect her, because that was his job.

Standing body hairs are relatively less numerous and longer in claviger.

The workers of flavus group species are sometimes confused with claviger group workers, but can be distinguished by relatively dense pubescence all over the body, which creates a dull overall appearances.

All of the species of the claviger group are believed to be temporary social parasits of other Lasius species, but the actual hosts are not all known.

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.

Claviger is Palearctic in distribution, extending from the British Isles to the Pamir Mountains of Turkestan and the Ob River of western Siberia.

The usual breeding places of claviger are springs and wells.

Word Forms

• clavigers

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