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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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

ob- +‎ cordate

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