Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In natural history, having a shape between oblong and ovate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Between oblong and ovate, but inclined to the latter.
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Examples
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The leaflets are thin, ovate to oblong-ovate and 5 - 12 centimeters long.
Chapter 9 1993
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The leaves are ovate to oblong-ovate, 6 14 cm long, somewhat entire, angular or lobed, pointed at the tip and heart-shaped at the base.
Chapter 9 1993
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Hot pepper is erect, branched, half-woody and 0.8 to 1.5 meters in height The leaves are oblong-ovate to ovate lanceolate, 3 to 10 cm long and pointed at the tip.
Chapter 9 1993
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Abdomen oblong-ovate, the apical margins of the segments narrowly pale testaceous; the scale of the petiole compressed, with its superior margin rounded.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Abdomen blue, and very smooth and shining, oblong-ovate; the apical segment vertical.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Thorax oblong-ovate with the metathorax truncate; the wings fusco-hyaline, the stigma large and black.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Head large, much wider than the thorax, oblong-ovate with a deep emargination behind; the clypeus slightly produced and truncate anteriorly, the angles of the truncation rounded, and with a central shining carina; the flagellum, except the tarsal joint, pale rufo-testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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-- An erect-growing plant, attaining a height of 9 ft. or more, and branching freely, the older parts of the stem and branches being woody and cylindrical; young joints flat, oblong-ovate, varying in length from
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Abdomen thinly covered with a fine cinereous pile; the first node of the petiole somewhat oblong-ovate, the second subglobose, the petiole of the first node short.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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_Thorax_, oblong-ovate in the _female_, in the _worker_ transverse in front and narrowed behind with the metathorax bidentate; the anterior wings with one elongate marginal cell and two submarginal cells, the second extending to the apex of the wing; the legs stout, the femora incrassate; abdomen ovate, the peduncle with two nodes.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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