a. Having the shape of a club; thickening towards one extremity which is blunt and rounded; in Zool. and Bot. = CLAVATE.

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1770.  Withering, Brit. Plants (1796), IV. 200. Stem light grey, reticulated, club-shaped.

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1813.  Bingley, Anim. Biog., III. 122. The antennæ are club-shaped.

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1874.  Wood, Nat. Hist., 485. In the true Tortoises the feet are club-shaped.

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1882.  Vines, Sachs’ Bot., 325. The club-shaped asci of Lichens.

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