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What does clavate mean?

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Adjective
  1. Resembling a club, becoming increasingly wide from the base to the distal end.
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On the top of the head an elegant crest of six elongated, recurved, clavate feathers, of which the webs are deflected.
The commonest type of trichome is uniseriate, two to four-celled, with a clavate or subclavate terminal cell.
Labellar papillae show greater diversity, and may be conical, obpyriform, villiform, fusiform or clavate.
Included in both these genera were short, rectilinear borings with clavate ends and elongate, curvilinear borings with or without swollen terminations.
Apart from size, the two specimens agree in all respects with the possible exception of the disposition of the clavate laterals.
The stem is stout, even, or much enlarged at the base so that it is clavate.

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