clavigerous adjective3 •Bearing a key.Is it really more knowledge we want, or more understanding? Are we in fact clavigerous and fail to realize the aperient properties of that which is in our hand? — 1927 •Bearing a club.Twenty-five drawings of a clavigerous lion guarding a rather imbecile teenage Britannia. — 1968 •Club-like.Sensillus a clavigerous bristle , only club of which projects beyond border of pteromorphae. — 1956