cordate

• The first glume is very small, membranous, glabrous, broader than long, cordate or triangular, broadly but shallowly emarginate, nerveless or very obscurely 1- to 2-nerved. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• Its buds and leaves, when beginning to unfold, are of a roseate hue, and soon change to a yellowish green; the leaves are thick, cordate, rounded at the base, with three sharp lobes at the other extremity, and finely serrated. —  The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
• Heart shaped_; as a cordate leaf 5. —  Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois
• Cordate. Having the shape of a heart_; as a cordate leaf pel, puls# = drive 1. com pel, together 2. compuls ion_, act of 3. dis pel, apart 4. ex pel, out 5. expuls ion_, act of 6. im pel, on 7. im pulse, on 8. pulse 9. pro pel, forward 10. re pel, back 11. re pulse, back 12. repuls ive_, quality 1. —  Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois
• Its leaves were nearly cordate, or heart-shaped, and of a very dark-green colour; but that which rendered it most conspicuous among the other trees of the forest was the shining white or silver-coloured bark that covered its trunk, and its numerous slender branches. —  The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms