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ovate::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval, oval-shaped, oviform, ovoid, prolate |
ovate::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of ovate
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The leaves are ovate to oblong with an acute tip, 8-15 cm long and 4-6 cm broad.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Leaves have petioles, and are ovate, up to 5 cm long, usually slightly toothed.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The leaves of these vines range from ovate to heart-shape and are thick and waxy.
From the orlandosentinel.com
The leaves are alternate, ovate to lanceolate, often with a toothed or lobed margin.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Tomatoes with a mutated copy of the OVATE gene turn out pear-shaped instead of round.
From the newscientist.com
Leaves may be ovate, lanceolate, or orbiculate, and very variable in size.
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Ovate is the result of genetic mutation and promotes the pear shape in some tomato varieties.
From the dispatch.com
It features handsome, ovate leaves up to 4 inches long, each with white veining underneath.
From the sfgate.com
The leaves are a medium-green color and ovate in shape and grow to 3 inches long and half as wide.
From the orlandosentinel.com
- Of a leaf shape; egg-shaped with the broader end at the base
- Egg-shaped: rounded like an egg
- In technical drawing, an oval (from Latin ovum, 'egg') is a figure constructed from two pairs of arcs, with two different radii (see image on the right). The arcs are joined at a point, in which lines tangential to both joining arcs lie on the same line, thus making the joint smooth. ...
- (Ovates) The earliest Latin writers used vates to denote "prophets" and soothsayers in general; the word fell into disuse in Latin until it was revived by Virgil . Thus Ovid could describe himself as the vates of Eros (Amores 3.9).
- (ovately) In an ovate manner
- (Ovates) The Druid caste was broken down into three areas: that of Ovate, Bard, and Druid. Ovate or Vates, as they are also often referred, were the young students who were in the first stage of the Druidic Philosophical Priesthood. ...
- Shaped like the longitudinal section of an egg, with the broad end at the base.
- A leaf with an oval or egg shape, slightly wider at the bottom near the stem.
- Shaped like a section through the long axis of an egg. cf. ovoid.
