Definitions for Clava

Clava cla·va

Spelling: [kley-vuh, klah-]
IPA: /ˈkleɪ və, ˈklɑ-/

Clava is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in Clava (aaclv).

Definitions for Clava

noun

  1. the two or more enlarged distal segments that form the bulbous end of a clavate antenna.

Origin of Clava

From the Late Latin word clāva staff, club

Examples for Clava

Variations of the kind we are considering are also observable in the clava, or knob, in which antenn often terminate.

The finest examples were at clava, seven miles from Inverness, where fifty years ago there were eight still in existence.

(a) Tentacles filiform; type of clava (fig. 5), Cordylophora, &c.

The Prickly-fruited sculus has nearly ripened its nut, Zanthoxylon clava herculis, in fruit, a "wild gourd" not in flower.

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