Meaning of OVATE
| Pronunciation: | | 'owveyt
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- [adj] rounded like an egg
- [adj] of a leaf shape; egg-shaped with the broader end at the base
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| | Synonyms: | | egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval, oviform, ovoid, prolate, rounded, simple, unsubdivided |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \O"vate\, a. [L. ovatus, from ovum egg. See {Oval}.]
1. Shaped like an egg, with the lower extremity broadest.
2. (Bot.) Having the shape of an egg, or of the longitudinal
sectior of an egg, with the broader end basal. --Gray.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Shaped like an egg in two dimensions, and attached by the wider end. Compare ovoid. |
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