clavate

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Resembling a club, becoming increasingly wide from the base to the distal end.
    — an organism with clavate antennae

词形变化

more clavate comparative most clavate superlative

词源

First attested in 1661; borrowed from New Latin clāvātus, from Latin clāva (“club”) + -ātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, clav(a) + -ate.
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