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Obovate

adjective
1.
(of a leaf shape) egg-shaped with the narrower end at the base.



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"Obovate" Quotes from Famous Books



... This is a roundish, obovate onion, of remarkable size, often measuring six inches and a half in depth, and six inches in diameter; neck thick and large; skin reddish-brown,—the layer next ...
— The Field and Garden Vegetables of America • Fearing Burr
... peridium; forms globose with narrow base, but apex cleft, and forms ellipsoidal, yet compressed, opening like the gaping of some tiniest bivalve; did not Persoon say P. bivalve! all are bivalvular at the last! Nay; but what are these? Here are some of the shorter forms become suddenly obovate, and are actually mounted on stipes! Surely variation in the same plasmodium ...
— The North American Slime-Moulds • Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride


Words linked to "Obovate" :   simple, unsubdivided, obovate leaf


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