corn, in botany. The name corn is given to the leading cereal crop of any major region. In England corn means wheat; in Scotland and Ireland, oats.

clavus /cla·vus/ (kla´vus) pl. cla´vi   [L.] corn. cla·vus (kl v s, klä-) n. pl. cla·vi (-v) 1. See corn. 2. A condition resulting from healing of a granuloma of the foot in ...

In Ancient Roman regalia, a laticlave, or clavus, was a broad stripe or band of purple on the fore part of the tunic, worn by senators as an emblem of office, from which the difference of the tunica angusticlavia, and laticlavia. This ornament, according to some, was called clavus, "nail" , as being set with little round plates of gold, or silver, like the heads of nails.

Clavus is a thickening of the skin due to intermittent pressure and frictional forces. These forces result in hyperkerat

Photographs and descriptions of the Mushrooms and other Fungi of California, USA ... Fruiting body a stipitate ascocarp; apothecia 3.0-6.0 (10.0) mm broad, at first obtuse-conic to ...

corn. Cultivated New World plant Zea mays of the grass family, with the grain borne on cobs enclosed in husks. It was domesticated by 6,500 BC in Mesoamerica, where it grew wild.

clavus militis. Soldier's Hobnail Sandal (photo courtesy of VRoma) Footsoldiers and centurians wore a heavy sandal-like shoe, the caliga, that consisted of a thick sole studded ...

Clavus may refer to: the plant disease ergot; the Roman laticlave; a shooting pain in the forehead, associated with hysteria, also called clavus hystericus; a callus formed on the toes; a corn; the pseudo-tail of the sunfish.

cla·vus   (kl v s, klä-) n. See corn 2. [Latin cl vus, nail, callus.] Thesaurus Legend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms. Noun: 1. clavus - a hard thickening of the skin ...

Danish cartographer (b. 1388) ... Claudius Clavus tt=15 (Or NICHOLAS NIGER.) The latinized form of the name of the old Danish cartographer Claudius Claussön Swart, born in the ...