Clavate is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 160 anagrams from letters in clavate (aaceltv).
1655-65; New Latin clāvātus, equivalent to Late Latin clāv(a) club + -ātus -ate1
They are not globular on the end, as the clavate hairs, but have "saw-like" edge.
On the top of the head an elegant crest of six elongated, recurved, clavate feathers, of which the webs are deflected.
Sporangia densely crowded or cespitose, sub-sessile or short stipitate, clavate, 1–1.5 mm.
Capitate: with a head: that type of clavate antenna in which the club is abruptly enlarged at tip and forms a spherical mass.
Frustule in zone view linear, linear-elliptical (in our species), or clavate.
Some of the species are simple, elongate and clavate bodies.
The name is more appropriate to the African species which are clavate.
The stem is nearly cylindrical, gradually enlarging below so that it is clavate, nearly hollow or stuffed with loose threads.
The stem is stout, even, or much enlarged at the base so that it is clavate.
This species has, however, a type of aristiforms unique in the genus—the clavate type.