Clavus

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Clavus may refer to:

• Claudius Clavus (born 1388), 15th-century Danish cartographer
• Clavus (gastropod), a genus of snails in the family Drilliidae
• 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 plant disease ergot
• the pseudo-tail of the Molidae (sunfish)
• in Hemiptera, a usually narrow strip of the hemelytron adjacent to the scutellum