Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Nearly or somewhat ovate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Nearly in the form of an egg, or of the section of an egg, but having the inferior extremity broadest; nearly ovate.

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  • adjective Nearly ovate in shape.

Etymologies

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sub- +‎ ovate

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Examples

  • Yellow; the antennæ fuscous above, also a fuscous cloud at the apex of the anterior wings, the wings hyaline with the nervures black; a spot on the scape within, and three longitudinal stripes on the mesothorax, black; the latter slightly punctured anteriorly; the metathorax smooth and shining, with three oblique carinæ on each side, and a small subovate enclosed space in the middle of the disk.

    Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

  • -- Pale sandy red, darker on the top of the head, the shoulders and fore part of back; two large patches behind the ears; the feet and the under-parts are pale buff yellow; ears moderately large, subovate and well clad, rusty yellow, paler on the under part; whiskers very long, brown, a few brownish white; toe-pads blackish.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • -- Fur above pale yellowish-brown; under fur lead coloured, mixed with longer piles of stiff, broad, plumbeous black tipped hairs; head long; muzzle narrow; whiskers long and black; ears large, subovate, slightly clad with fine hairs; eyes large; incisor teeth yellow; feet brownish above, but the sides and toes are whitish; tail longer than head and body.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • _worker_ subovate and much wider; _eyes_ small, ovate and placed about the middle at the sides of the head; _antennæ_ geniculated, the scape about two thirds of the length of the flagellum which is clavate, the club three-jointed; the _mandibles_ stout and dentate; the _labial palpi_ 3-jointed; the _maxillary palpi_ 4-jointed.

    Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

  • Opake black; the antennæ thick and scarcely as long as the thorax, their apex and the mandibles bright ferruginous; the legs somewhat obscure ferruginous, with the articulations much brighter; the head a little wider than the thorax and subovate; the thorax, node of the petiole, and the abdomen of nearly equal width, the abdomen being slightly the widest; the node of the petiole nearly quadrate; the apical margin of the first segment and base of the second slightly depressed.

    Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

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