claviger
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claviger¹
Where it comes from
From Latin claviger, from clava (“club”) + gerere (“to carry”).
noun clavigers
- One who carries a club; a club bearer. They goaded him into testing one of his planes, tricked him into throwing one out of the window to see if it would glide, and it did; it glided right into a claviger patrolling outside.
- A group within genus Lasius (formerly considered a subgenera Acanthomyops) of bright yellow to orange species of ant that have 3 maxillary palps and give off a distinctive citronella odor when disturbed. The group name comes from their club-shaped palps. Standing body hairs are relatively less numerous and longer in claviger.
- A species of mosquito, Anopheles claviger. Over much of its range claviger lays eggs without a blood meal, whereas forms requiring blood for egg laying have been observed on the Black Sea coast.
claviger²
Where it comes from
From Latin clāviger, from clāvis (“key”) + gerere (“to carry”).
noun clavigers
- One who carries the keys to a place; a keyholder. They were incensed that the claviger Bernat Mola not only slept in the church, but that by night he allowed “dishonest people and tricksters” in to gamble.
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title = {claviger},
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