Claviger Definition

noun

One who carries a club; a club bearer.

Wiktionary

One who carries the keys to a place; a keyholder.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Claviger

Noun

Singular:
claviger
Plural:
clavigers

Origin of Claviger

  • Latin, from clava (“club”) + gerere (“to carry”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin, from clavis (“key”) + gerere (“to carry”).

    From Wiktionary

Claviger Sentence Examples

  • The island has a bad reputation for malaria, due to the fact that it offers a considerable quantity of breeding places for the Anopheles claviger, the mosquito whose bite conveys the infection.

  • In 1557, however, a great flood caused the Tiber to change its course, so that it no longer flowed under the walls of the castle, but some half a mile farther west; and its old bed (Fiume Morto) has ever since then served as a breeding ground for the malarial mosquito (Anopheles claviger).

  • Here Drs Lowe and Sambon made the decisive experiments which proved that the propagation of malaria was due to the mosquito Anopheles claviger.

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Words Starting With

CCLCLA

Words Ending With

RERGER

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Words Starting With C and Ending With R

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With C8 Letter Words Ending With R