club-shaped, a.
(ˈklʌbʃeɪpt)
Having the shape of a club; thickening towards one extremity which is blunt and rounded; in Zool. and Bot. = clavate.
| 1776 Withering Brit. Plants (1796) IV. 200 Stem light grey, reticulated, club-shaped. 1813 Bingley Anim. Biog. III. 122 The antennæ are club-shaped. 1874 Wood Nat. Hist. 485 In the true Tortoises the feet are club-shaped. 1882 Vines Sachs' Bot. 325 The club-shaped asci of Lichens. |