claviger2 (klavijer)

[F. clavigère, IMG:content-0547.png:[blocks in formation] Clavi palpi (klav-i-pal'pi), n. p of cla ification, the eenth family of term clavi palpus: see clavipalp.] In Latreille's system rous Coleoptera or beetles, now retained as a superfamily of the suborder Tetramer a, containing the families Erotylidæ and Languriida, characterized by compre ion and clavation of the last three jo joints of the antennæ and a broadly transverse last joint of the maxillary palps. clavis (klā'vis), n.; pl. claves (-vēz). [L. clavis (= Gr. κλείς, Dor. κλαίς ), a key, connected with clau - dere = Gr. κλείειν, shut, close: see close1, v., and cf. slot, from the same ult. root. Hence ult. clef, clavicle, conclave, etc.] A key; specifically, a key to or an aid to the understanding of something difficult, as a cipher, or the study of a foreign or cla ic author in his own lan IMG:content-0548.png:[blocks in formation]