Clavus
Clavus may refer to:
- Claudius Clavus, a 15th-century Danish cartographer
- Clavus : a genus of gastropods in the family Drilliidae
- the plant disease ergot;
- the Roman clavus, a reddish-purple stripe on garments that distinguished members of the senatorial and equestrian orders; see laticlave and angusticlavia;
- a shooting pain in the forehead, associated with hysteria, also called clavus hystericus;
- a corn (medicine), such as formed on the toes
- the pseudo-tail of the sunfish.
- in Hemiptera a usually narrow strip of the hemelytron adjacent to the scutellum
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