adjective. Having one end thickened; club-shaped.

Like a nail.

Club-shaped; having the form of a club; growing gradually thicker toward the top; claviform.

adjective. Club-shaped; having the form of a club; growing gradually thicker toward the top. [See Illust. of antennae.]

adjective. Resembling a club, becoming increasingly wide from the base to the distal end.

"Curious transformation in Carthamus 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."

clavate articulation  clavate intestine  clavate nucleus  flabellate  lamellate  

clavated  

clubbed