clava
/kley-vuh, klah-/US // ˈkleɪ və, ˈklɑ- //
克拉瓦,克拉瓦尔,克拉沃,克拉维
Definitions
n.名词 noun
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plural cla·vae [kley-vee, klah-vahy]. /ˈkleɪ vi, ˈklɑ vaɪ/. Entomology.
- : the two or more enlarged distal segments that form the bulbous end of a clavate antenna.
Examples
In Colymbetes serricornis, a water-beetle, the male has a serrated clava of four joints.
Variations of the kind we are considering are also observable in the clava, or knob, in which antenn often terminate.
The Prickly-fruited sculus has nearly ripened its nut, Zanthoxylon clava herculis, in fruit, a "wild gourd" not in flower.
(a) Tentacles filiform; type of Clava (fig. 5), Cordylophora, &c.
The finest examples were at Clava, seven miles from Inverness, where fifty years ago there were eight still in existence.
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