Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who keeps the keys, as of a room.
- noun A custodian of the treasury, records, or muniments of a corporation.
- noun . Literally, one who has a club; a club-bearer.
- noun [capitalized] [NL.] In entomology, a genus of clavicorn beetles, of the family Pselaphidæ. C. testaceus is a wingless European species with connate elytra.
- noun [capitalized] [NL.] In conchology, a genus of gastropods.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who carries the keys of any place.
- noun One who carries a club; a club bearer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who carries a
club ; a club bearer.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In 1899, led by Giovanni Batista Grassi, a team of Italian investigators collected Anopheles claviger mosquitoes and fed them on malarial patients.
Malaria 2008
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That is a major difficulty, I think, since the United States can scarcely be an effective “claviger” key bearer and “steward” of the states of consent if its executive cannot secure enduring domestic consent for its “preclusive” actions.
Hullabaloo 2008
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Baptista Christi praevius et claviger aetherius cum ceteris apostolis nos solvant nexu criminis.
November 1: The Feast of All Saints bls 2008
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Baptista Christi praevius et claviger aetherius cum ceteris apostolis nos solvant nexu criminis.
Archive 2008-11-01 bls 2008
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Huber's observations, 66; author's experiments with _Lasius niger_, 66; claviger beetles recognized and petted by, 73; gray matter in the brain of, 99; nerve-cells and nerve-filaments in the brain cortex of, 99;
The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881
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Anopheles claviger mosquitoes and fed them on malarial patients.
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Edaphosaurus pogonias Cope; Clepsy drops natalis Cope; Naosaurus claviger Cope;
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One notable little alien in certain ant communities is a minute claviger beetle (so called from its peculiar claviger, or club-shaped antennæ), which seems to be a well-beloved friend and companion, and which is always treated with great kindness. [
The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881
knitandpurl commented on the word claviger
"It must take a lot of effort to keep a man like him tidy. Not to mention well tailored. He was bigger than most. She had to give credit to his valet, who must be a particularly tolerant claviger."
Soulless by Gail Carriger, p 13
November 8, 2010