Ovate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Shaped like an egg; oval.
  • adj. Botany Broad and rounded at the base and tapering toward the end: an ovate leaf.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Shaped like an egg.
  • adj. Egg-shaped, with the broadest extremity near the base.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Egg-shaped.
  • n. See the quotation.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. rounded like an egg
  • adj. of a leaf shape; egg-shaped with the broader end at the base
  • Equivalent
    rounded    unsubdivided    simple   
    Form
    obovate   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    egg-shape    eggshaped    ovoid   
    Same Context
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