club-shaped
Wider at one end
Club-shaped describes something thicker at one end than the other, like a club or cudgel—narrow at the base and swelling toward the tip.
The term appears most often in botanical and biological descriptions: club-shaped fungi, club-shaped antennae.
The technical term is clavate.
Gradually narrowing in width
- bulbousSwollen and round
- thickenedMade more dense
- swollenAbnormally enlarged
- knobbedHaving rounded projections
rounded · widening · broad tip · elongated · cylindrical · gradual · flared · expanded
tapered
Gradually narrowing in width
knobbed · rounded · widening · broad tip · elongated · cylindrical · gradual · flared · expanded · oblong
fungus
Spore-bearing organism
lichen · algae · puffball · morel · chanterelle · thallus · hypha · pistil · stamen · sepal
bone
Hard skeletal tissue
digit · phalanx · appendage · tentacle · antenna · palp · proboscis · limb · extremity · knobbed
- microbiologybacteria, bacterium, microbe, microbes, microorganisms