claviger

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who carries a club; a club bearer.
    — 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.
  2. One who carries the keys to a place; a keyholder.
    — They were incensed that the claviger Bernat Mola not only slept in the church, but that by night he allowed “dishonest people and tricksters” in to gamble.
  3. 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.
    — Standing body hairs are relatively less numerous and longer in claviger.
  4. A species of mosquito, Anopheles claviger.
    — 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.

词形变化

clavigers plural clavigers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
clavigerous

词源

词源 1
From Latin claviger, from clava (“club”) + gerere (“to carry”).
词源 2
From Latin clāviger, from clāvis (“key”) + gerere (“to carry”).
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