Claviger
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Claviger is a noun meaning One who carries a club; a club bearer.
Meaning
One who carries a club; a club bearer.
More Meanings
- (entomology) A species of mosquito, Anopheles claviger.
- One who carries the keys to a place; a keyholder.
- (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.
Example Sentences
The usual breeding places of claviger are springs and wells.
Standing body hairs are relatively less numerous and longer in claviger.
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.
Claviger is Palearctic in distribution, extending from the British Isles to the Pamir Mountains of Turkestan and the Ob River of western Siberia.
Word Forms
- clavigers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include clubman, arms-bearer, pallbearer, armsbearer, swordbearer, armourbearer.
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