Having a clavicle or clavicles; possessing collarbone structure, or marked by club-shaped segments (in botany and entomology).
From Latin 'clavicula' (clavicle, literally 'little key') + '-ate' (suffix meaning 'having' or 'characterized by'). Can refer to anatomical or morphological features.
In botany, 'claviculate' describes stems or organs that gradually thicken toward the tip like a club, and scientists borrowed the same term from anatomy because the shape resembles the collarbone's curves—showing how the same word gets recycled across different fields.
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