Obcordate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Botany Heart-shaped, with the point of attachment at the narrow end: an obcordate leaf.
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  • adj. Of a reversed cordate shape; heart-shaped but attached to the stalk by the pointed end.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Heart-shaped, with the attachment at the pointed end; inversely cordate.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In natural history, inversely heartshaped; cordate, but with the broader end, with its strong notch, at the apex instead of the base.
    • Word Usage
    "The _first glume_ is cuneately obovate or obcordate, yellowish with red brown tips or dark brown with yellow tips, chartaceous below, membranous, hyaline and ciliate at the truncate, emarginate or retuse apex, 7 - to 9-nerved, the nerves abruptly ceasing towards the apex."
     
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