claviger

plural clavigers

1. One who carries a club; a club bearer.

   But he was the claviger, and he took that duty seriously. And he never helped her. He followed her, to protect her, because that was his job.

   2014, Matt Weber, The Dandelion Knight

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   They goaded him into testing one of his planes, tricked him into throwing one out of the window to see if it would glide, and it did; it glided right into a claviger patrolling outside.

   2013, Elon Dann, Clockwise to Titan

2. biologyA group within genus Lasius (formerly considered a subgenera Acanthomyops) of bright yellow to orange species of ant that have 3 maxillary palps and give off a distinctive citronella odor when disturbed. The group name comes from their club-shaped palps.

   Standing body hairs are relatively less numerous and longer in claviger.

   1968, Merle Wesley Wing, Taxonomic Revision of the Nearctic Genus Acanthomyops, page 81

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   The workers of flavus group species are sometimes confused with claviger group workers, but can be distinguished by relatively dense pubescence all over the body, which creates a dull overall appearances.

   2007, Brian L. Fisher, Stefan P. Cover, Ants of North America: A Guide to the Genera, page 104

   All of the species of the claviger group are believed to be temporary social parasits of other Lasius species, but the actual hosts are not all known.

   2012, Aaron M. Ellison, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Elizabeth J. Farnsworth, A Field Guide to the Ants of New England, page 179

3. biologyA species of mosquito, Anopheles claviger.

   The usual breeding places of claviger are springs and wells.

   1984, A. R. Zahar, Vector Bionomics in the Epidemiology and Control of Malaria, page 98

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   Over much of its range claviger lays eggs without a blood meal, whereas forms requiring blood for egg laying have been observed on the Black Sea coast.

   1949, Agriculture Handbook - Issue 152, page 117

   Claviger is Palearctic in distribution, extending from the British Isles to the Pamir Mountains of Turkestan and the Ob River of western Siberia.

   1957, Mosquito Reprints: Matheson Collection - Volume 1, page 335

plural clavigers

1. One who carries the keys to a place; a keyholder.

   They were incensed that the claviger Bernat Mola not only slept in the church, but that by night he allowed “dishonest people and tricksters” in to gamble.

   2010, Ronald Stansbury, A Companion to Pastoral Care in the Late Middle Ages (1200-1500)

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   Hugh of Tadcaster remarked that he had been claviger before being admitted as a brother of the Order, and that he had asked the master – presumably he meant the grand commander of England - to admit him as a brother:

   2011, Helen J. Nicholson, The proceedings against the Templars in the British Isles, page lii