Claviform is the reverse of stalactitic; it is composed of club-shaped parallel rods which adhere by their thin extremities. Examples, brown and black hæmatite.
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Claviform
//ˈklævɪfɔːm//
Synonyms for "claviform" (2 found)
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Translations
10 translations across 6 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- claviforme adj (larger at the tip than at the base; club-shaped)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 棒狀的 /棒状的 adj (larger at the tip than at the base; club-shaped)
French
1 entries- claviforme adj (larger at the tip than at the base; club-shaped)
German
4 entries- claviform adj (larger at the tip than at the base; club-shaped)
- claviform adj (key-shaped)
- keulenförmig adj (larger at the tip than at the base; club-shaped)
- kolbenförmig adj (larger at the tip than at the base; club-shaped)
Italian
1 entries- claviforme adj (larger at the tip than at the base; club-shaped)
Spanish
1 entries- claviforme adj (larger at the tip than at the base; club-shaped)
Sample sentences
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Two other claviform tentacula arise from the anterior superior part of the mantle [of sea slugs of the genus Doris].
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The embryo is roundish, compressed, with a very large, claviform radicle, and two large, foliaceous cotyledons, full of nerves, plaited, depressed, and applied to the radicle; the colour of the embryo is white, except the nerves of the cotyledons, which are rose-coloured.
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One zoarial fragment, from sample 2, may belong to Figularia. [...] The elongate-claviform zooecia have long, smooth proximal gymnocysts, extending as much as one-third the zooecial length and continuing as narrow strips along the lateral margins nearly to the distal end.
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