Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Shaped like an egg; oval.
- adj. Botany Broad and rounded at the base and tapering toward the end: an ovate leaf.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Egg-shaped. Having a figure like the longitudinal section of a hen's egg; oval, but broader at one end than at the other: applied in botany particularly to leaves.
- n. See the quotation.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Shaped like an egg, with the lower extremity broadest.
- adj. Having the shape of an egg, or of the longitudinal section of an egg, with the broader end basal.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. rounded like an egg
- adj. of a leaf shape; egg-shaped with the broader end at the base
Etymologies
- Latin ōvātus, from ōvum, egg; see awi- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“Towering displays of the emptiest rhetoric, curmudgeons who refuse to 'ovate', career lickspittles who ovate with surplus vigour to camera ... ..”
“Todd Smith's engaging small paintings create intricate patterns out of myriad, carefully hand-painted ovate dots...”
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“Can a thing or person which is ovate also be willowy?”
“Teh leeves are darkish green wif purplol veins adn edjes, moar oar less ovate.”
“The leaves are opposite, simple broad lanceolate to ovate, 1-9 cm long and 0.5-6 cm broad.”
“Rare plants that occur or that have occurred here include heart leaf plantain, estuary beggar ticks, golden club, ovate spikerush, Parker's pipewort, Nuttall's micranthemum, Eaton's burmarigold, false pimpernel, winged monkey flower and swamp lousewort.”
“Typing this with my toes as I simultaneously ovate and applaud.”
“It features broadly elliptical to ovate green leaves.”
“Elliptical to ovate and dark green and slightly glossy leaves remain through the summer months.”
“Carolina Bays are ovate shaped shallow depressions and occur abundantly across a broad band of the coastal plain from southern North Carolina to the South Carolina-Georgia border.”
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