obcordate

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The first glume is cuneately obovate or obcordate, yellowish with red brown tips or dark brown with yellow tips, chartaceous below, membranous, hyaline and ciliate at the truncate, emarginate or retuse apex, 7- to 9-nerved, the nerves abruptly ceasing towards the apex.

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  1. adjective Botany Heart-shaped, with the point of attachment at the narrow end: an obcordate leaf.

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  • The first glume is cuneately obovate or obcordate, yellowish with red brown tips or dark brown with yellow tips, chartaceous below, membranous, hyaline and ciliate at the truncate, emarginate or retuse apex, 7- to 9-nerved, the nerves abruptly ceasing towards the apex. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • The remaining glumes fourth to seventh are borne by the rachilla, thinly chartaceous, broadly obcordate or obovate, gradually diminishing in size, purple-tinged, 3- to 5-nerved, scaberulous. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • Leaflets sessile, obcordate, with downy borders. —  The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
  • The petals are as a rule obcordate, but this type may be combined with others having more or less broad emarginations at the summit, and with differences in breadth which vary from almost linear types to others which touch along their margins. —  Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
  • And the sharp sorrel lifts obcordate leaves, —  The Book of Humorous Verse
 

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/ɑbˈkɔrdeɪt/
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