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Ovate adj.

Shaped like an egg, with the lower extremity broadest.

(Bot.) Having the shape of an egg, or of the longitudinal section of an egg, with the broader end basal.

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Etymology of 'Ovate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ovate" Quotes from Famous Books

... ribbed, and as large as the egg of a fowl; its butt was covered with a lamellar bark, but the upper part and the branches were white and smooth; also by another Eucalyptus, with a scaly butt like the Moreton Bay ash, but with smooth upper trunk and cordate ovate leaves, which was also new to me; we called it the Apple-gum. We frequently met with the grass ...

— Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia • Ludwig Leichhardt

... anything in shape from a melon to a stumpy, irregular cucumber, according to the botanic variety. The intermediate shape is like a lemon, with furrows from end to end. There are pods, called Calabacillo, smooth and ovate like a calabash, and there are others, more rare, so "nobbly" that they are well-named "Alligator." The pods vary in length from five to eleven inches, "with here and there the great pod of all, the blood-red sangre-tora." The colours ...

— Cocoa and Chocolate - Their History from Plantation to Consumer • Arthur W. Knapp

... species is considered by some only a white variety of Amanita phalloides. The plant is always a pure white. It can only be distinguished from the white form of the A. phalloides by its closer sheathing volva and perhaps a more ovate pileus ...

— The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise - Its Habitat and its Time of Growth • M. E. Hard

Words linked to "Ovate" : egg-shaped, elliptical, oval, prolate, oviform, elliptic