Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Heart-shaped, with the narrow end at the base.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In natural history, inversely heartshaped; cordate, but with the broader end, with its strong notch, at the apex instead of the base.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Heart-shaped, with the attachment at the pointed end; inversely cordate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany, of a leaf Of a reversed
cordate shape;heart-shaped but attached to the stalk by the pointed end.
Etymologies
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Examples
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HIBISCUS. with obcordate tonentose leaves, and pink flowers; both these last were very handsome shrubs.
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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.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The first glume is large, broadly obovate or obcordate, cuneate, villous with brown hairs, 7 - to 9-nerved.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The remaining glumes _fourth_ to _seventh_ are borne by the rachilla, thinly chartaceous, broadly obcordate or obovate, gradually diminishing in size, purple-tinged, 3 - to 5-nerved, scaberulous.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Each petal has its tip inflexed, giving it an obcordate appearance.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 Various
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The _laevifolia_ petals become smaller and are often not emarginated at the apex, becoming ovate [529] instead of obcordate.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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The petals are as a rule obcordate, but this type may be combined with others having more or less broad emarginations at the summit, and with differences in breadth which vary from almost linear types to others which touch along their margins.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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= -- Fruiting catkins erect or spreading, cylindrical, about 1-1/4 inches long and 1/2 inch in diameter, stalked; scales 3-parted above the center, side lobes larger, at right angles or reflexed: nuts small, ovate to obovate, narrower than the wings, combined wings from broadly obcordate to butterfly-shape, wider than long.
Handbook of the Trees of New England Lorin Low Dame 1860
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A vertically ovate leaf is the fame with an ob - verfely-ovate or obovate leaf; and a vertically cordate leaf is the fame with an obverfely cor - date or obcordate leaf. —
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