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OVATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ovate mean?
• OVATE (adjective)
The adjective OVATE has 2 senses:
1. of a leaf shape; egg-shaped with the broader end at the base
2. rounded like an egg
Familiarity information: OVATE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of a leaf shape; egg-shaped with the broader end at the base
Similar:
simple; unsubdivided ((botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Rounded like an egg
Synonyms:
egg-shaped; elliptic; elliptical; oval; oval-shaped; ovate; oviform; ovoid; prolate
Similar:
rounded (curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged)
Context examples
The ovate to linear leaves are sessile, opposite, and well-supplied with translucent glandular dots.
(Hypericum perforatum, NCI Thesaurus)
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