Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shaped like a club; clavate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Enlarged gradually at the end, as the antennæ of certain insects.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective shaped in the form of a club that is larger at one end
- adjective shaped in the form of the black trefoil or clover leaf on some playing cards
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Examples
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The music beat them back, the pink haze forming knots around their necks or club-shaped clouds which smashed them into oblivion.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010
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But someone, somewhere might love that golf club-shaped cheese spreader.
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For I beheld simply an irregularly sloping open space, and all over its slanting floor stood a forest of little club-shaped fungi, each shining gloriously with that pinkish silvery light.
First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006
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The "club-shaped" surface proteins that surround the virus attach the virus to its host cell.
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There is a tendency in the Rio Grande cutthroat trout for some spots on the caudal peduncle to coalesce into large, club-shaped spots.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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There is a tendency in the Rio Grande cutthroat trout for some spots on the caudal peduncle to coalesce into large, club-shaped spots.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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There is a tendency in the Rio Grande cutthroat trout for some spots on the caudal peduncle to coalesce into large, club-shaped spots.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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There is a tendency in the Rio Grande cutthroat trout for some spots on the caudal peduncle to coalesce into large, club-shaped spots.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The swelling may in time lead to a club-shaped, deformed stump, which is difficult to fit with an artificial limb.
Chapter 7 1999
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The battil, also no longer built, featured long stems topped by large, club-shaped stem heads and stern posts decorated with cowrie shells and leather.
The Durable Dhow 1997
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