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clava
[ kley-vuh, klah- ]
noun
, Entomology.
, plural cla·vae [kley, -vee, klah, -vahy].
- the two or more enlarged distal segments that form the bulbous end of a clavate antenna.
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Other Words From
- claval adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of clava1
From the Late Latin word clāva staff, club
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Example Sentences
In Colymbetes serricornis, a water-beetle, the male has a serrated clava of four joints.
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Variations of the kind we are considering are also observable in the clava, or knob, in which antenn often terminate.
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The Prickly-fruited sculus has nearly ripened its nut, Zanthoxylon clava herculis, in fruit, a "wild gourd" not in flower.
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(a) Tentacles filiform; type of Clava (fig. 5), Cordylophora, &c.
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The finest examples were at Clava, seven miles from Inverness, where fifty years ago there were eight still in existence.
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