About The Word Ovate
Learn about the word Ovate to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Ovate definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Ovate
| 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 Related Terms | Find terms related to Ovate: See Also | 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.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Compliant ‐ disposed or willing to comply; "children compliant with the parental…
- Hafnium ‐ a gray tetravalent metallic element that resembles zirconium…
- Wintertime ‐ the coldest season…
- Execution of instrument ‐ (law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract…
- Insight ‐ grasping the inner nature of things intuitively [n] clear or…
- Festoonery ‐ flower chains suspended in loops…
- Intermeshed ‐ caught as if in a mesh; "enmeshed in financial difficulties"…
- Scratch ‐ an indication of damage [n] poor handwriting [n] a harsh noise…
- English hawthorn ‐ thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of…
- Graphical ‐ written or drawn or engraved; "graphic symbols" [adj] relating…