Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In entomology, the club or expanded terminal portion of an insect's antenna, whether it is clavate, lamellate, or capitate.
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Examples
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Clava: a club; the enlarged apical joints of a clubbed antenna: = clavola.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Clavus: the club of an antenna lava and clavola: in Heteroptera, the oblong sclerite at the base of the inferior margin of the hemelytra: the knob at the end of the stigmal or radial veins in certain Hymenoptera.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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