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Ovate   Listen
adjective
Ovate  adj.  
1.
Shaped like an egg, with the lower extremity broadest.
2.
(Bot.) Having the shape of an egg, or of the longitudinal section of an egg, with the broader end basal.





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"Ovate" Quotes from Famous Books



... with rare gracefulness. The leaves are a light glossy green, ovate, and often a foot long, while the flowers are pure white (resembling slightly the azalea, but free from its fragility), large, and with an elusive scent, sweet and yet indefinite. The fruit, smooth and of porcelain ...
— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield
... ovate, pointed, toothed on the edges, more so on the larger leaves, slightly beset with soft hairs, veins prominent on the under side, usually running parallel to each ...
— The Botanical Magazine Vol. 8 - Or, Flower-Garden Displayed • William Curtis


Words linked to "Ovate" :   oviform, ovate leaf, oval-shaped, elliptical, prolate, oval, elliptic, unsubdivided, egg-shaped, ovoid, simple


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