Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Shaped like an egg.
- adjective Botany Shaped like an egg and flat, with the broad end toward the base.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Egg-shaped.
- noun See the quotation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Shaped like an egg, with the lower extremity broadest.
- adjective (Bot.) Having the shape of an egg, or of the longitudinal section of an egg, with the broader end basal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Shaped like an
egg . - adjective botany
Egg-shaped , with thebroadest extremity near thebase .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective rounded like an egg
- adjective of a leaf shape; egg-shaped with the broader end at the base
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Towering displays of the emptiest rhetoric, curmudgeons who refuse to 'ovate', career lickspittles who ovate with surplus vigour to camera ... ..
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Todd Smith's engaging small paintings create intricate patterns out of myriad, carefully hand-painted ovate dots...
Peter Clothier: Gallery Rounds/Bergamot Station Peter Clothier 2011
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Can a thing or person which is ovate also be willowy?
Linkspam for 7-11-2009 nwhyte 2009
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Todd Smith's engaging small paintings create intricate patterns out of myriad, carefully hand-painted ovate dots...
Peter Clothier: Gallery Rounds/Bergamot Station Peter Clothier 2011
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Teh leeves are darkish green wif purplol veins adn edjes, moar oar less ovate.
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The leaves are opposite, simple broad lanceolate to ovate, 1-9 cm long and 0.5-6 cm broad.
VINCA MINOR ALBA FOR ELEGANCE Pooky 2009
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Typing this with my toes as I simultaneously ovate and applaud.
Thank You Kevin Killian Dodie Bellamy 2008
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It features broadly elliptical to ovate green leaves.
Archive 2008-01-01 Pooky 2008
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Elliptical to ovate and dark green and slightly glossy leaves remain through the summer months.
Archive 2008-06-01 Pooky 2008
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Rare plants that occur or that have occurred here include heart leaf plantain, estuary beggar ticks, golden club, ovate spikerush, Parker's pipewort, Nuttall's micranthemum, Eaton's burmarigold, false pimpernel, winged monkey flower and swamp lousewort.
Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, New York 2008
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