Associations to the word «Clavis»

Wiktionary

CLAVIS, noun. (archaeology) A Roman key.
CLAVIS, noun. A device for restraint of the hands.
CLAVIS, noun. A glossary.
CLAVIS, noun. (biology) A key; an identification guide; a series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats