"Clavated" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was observed, either affecting the involucrum alone, when those branches that would have become flowers become clavate, covered with very dense aristate leaves, or affecting the florets which become more or less converted in the branches. In these the involucre is little altered, and the receptacle is attacked by larva. In certain of these the florets are ...
— Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The - Neighbouring Countries • William Griffith
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... up, cock up, shoot up; swell over, hang over, bend over; beetle. render prominent &c adj.; raise 307; emboss, chase. [become convex] belly out. Adj. convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting &c v.; bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy; clavate, clavated^, claviform; hummocky^, moutonne^, mammiliform^; papulous^, papilose^; hemispheric, bulbous; bowed, arched; bold; bellied; tuberous, tuberculous; tumous^; cornute^, odontoid^; lentiform^, lenticular; gibbous; club shaped, hubby [U.S.], hubbly [U.S.], knobby, papillose, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
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