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Ovate

Ovate Meaning & Definition
Ovate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ovate?

[adj] rounded like an egg
[adj] of a leaf shape; egg-shaped with the broader end at the base

Synonyms | Synonyms for Ovate: egg-shaped | elliptic | elliptical | oval | oviform | ovoid | prolate | rounded | simple | unsubdivided

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Ovate In Webster's Dictionary

\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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