This is series of posts on interesting and unusual words and phrases.
The first set of words are adjectives that describe a shape and are often used in botany, mineralogy, and describing artistic forms.
The word for today is claviform or clavate: club shaped; from the Latin, clava.
Clavate: Widened at the distal end, like a baseball bat or club.
https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/glossary/c/
Clavigerous: bearing a club (clava) or key (clavis).
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