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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Botany Egg-shaped and flat, with the narrow end attached to the stalk: an obovate leaf.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In natural history, inversely ovate; having the broad end upward or toward the apex, as in many leaves.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. botany, mycology Shaped like an egg, with the broad extremity located away from the base.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Bot.) Inversely ovate; ovate with the narrow end downward.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. (of a leaf shape) egg-shaped with the narrower end at the base

Etymologies

  1. ob- + ovate (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Dodonaea microzyga, F.M. Somewhat viscid, almost glabrous; leaves with 1 to 2 pairs of small obovate-cuneate leaflets; in front rounded, or truncate, or retuse, or sometimes 3-toothed, flat at the margin; rachis dilated; fruit-bearing pedicels solitary; capsules 3 to 4-celled; valves cymbeo-semiorbicular, all around broadly winged; the wing rounded-blunt on both extremities; dissepiments persistent with the columella.”

    The Journals of John McDouall Stuart

  • “Leaves opposite, shiny, elliptic to obovate, broadly ovate with a sharp tip.”

    Chapter 7

  • “LEAVES: Variable, smooth or slightly rough, narrow and long, ovate to obovate or broadly so.”

    Chapter 7

  • “Leaflets often without a stalk but the larger leaflets sometimes with a winged stalk, obovate to elliptic, roughly hairy above, softly hairy beneath.”

    Chapter 7

  • “LEAVES: 3-foliolate, the middle leaflet being largest, obovate and with toothed margin, lateral ones much smaller and usually elliptic.”

    Chapter 7

  • “LEAVES: With bases sheathing round the stem, usually obovate to elliptic with deep lobes and usually with bristles at base of leaf stalk.”

    Chapter 7

  • “Leaves usually obovate, short-stalked, conspicuously veined below.”

    Chapter 7

  • “The obovate leaflets are generally 6-12 cm long and 2-15 cm wide. but size varies greatly.”

    Chapter 10

  • “Leaves are fleshy, flat, oblong - obovate, 1 - 25 cm in length The yellow flowers open only for a few hours in the morning.”

    Chapter 9

  • “The obovate leaflets are generally 6-12 cm long and 2-15 cm wide, but size varies greatly.”

    Chapter 44

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