clavate
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 7
Definition of clavate
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Resembling a club, becoming increasingly wide from the base to the distal end.
“an organism with clavate antennae”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
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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