claviger
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "But he was the claviger, and he took that duty seriously. And he never helped her. He followed her, to protect her, because that was his job."
- "Standing body hairs are relatively less numerous and longer in claviger."
- "The workers of flavus group species are sometimes confused with claviger group workers, but can be distinguished by relatively dense pubescence all over the body, which creates a dull overall appearances."
- "All of the species of the claviger group are believed to be temporary social parasits of other Lasius species, but the actual hosts are not all known."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: claviger, clāviger