clavigerous

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adjective

Bearing a club.

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Meanings

adjectiveclavigerous (not comparable)
  1. not comparableBearing a club.

    Beadles doubted whether the tiny caliber weapon would stop the clavigerous thug .

    2013, Mike Baron, Skorpio
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    It seems probable that the famous 'Cerne Giant'—a colossal human figure wielding a club—which is cut in the chalk on the hill-side east of Cerne Abbas in Dorsetshire, may belong to the Bronze Age and be connected with phallus-worship. […] it is petrographic, colossal, nude, ithyphallic, and clavigerous; and that ' forms which possess these five characteristics have been found in the rock carvings of Scandinavia ... and belong only to the Bronze Age and to its overlap with the Early Age of Iron'.

    1907, T.R. Holmes, Ancient Britain, page 207

    Twenty-five drawings of a clavigerous lion guarding a rather imbecile teenage Britannia.

    1968, Anthony Burgess, Enderby Outside
  2. not comparableBearing a key.

    Is it really more knowledge we want, or more understanding? Are we in fact clavigerous and fail to realize the aperient properties of that which is in our hand?

    1927, Psyche - Volume 7, page 2
  3. not comparableClub-like.

    Sensillus a clavigerous bristle , only club of which projects beyond border of pteromorphae.

    1956, Leonard Dale Tuthill, Psyllidae of Pacific Entomological Survey, page 141
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    Histioteuthids.—Teuthidoid Decaceres with the six upper arms connected by a very extensive web, without lachrymal sinuses, a siphon without valve or dorsal bridle, without nuchal crests, long claviegerous tentacular arms "bearing large central, and small marginal suckers and tubercles." buccal membrane "with six smooth lobes," and with four buccal aquiferous openings.

    1883, Theodore Gill, “Zoology”, in Spencer F. Baird, editor, Record of Scientific Progress for 1882

Origin

From claviger + -ous.

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