Ovate synonyms

ō'vāt'

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oviform
Egg-shaped
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oval
Resembling an egg in shape.
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ovoid
Egg-shaped; shaped like an oval, but more tapered at one end; ovate.
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ovoidal
Somewhat ovoid
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egg-shaped
Having the shape of an egg.
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elliptical
The definition of elliptical is something that resembles or relates to an ellipse, a plane that intersects a cone.
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oval-shaped
rounded like an egg
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prolate
Having the distance between the poles longer than the equatorial diameter:
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lanceolate (related)
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obovate (related)
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lance-shaped (related)
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lobed (related)
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pinnate (related)
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stalkless (related)
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geometry (related)
The mathematical study of the properties, measurement, and relationships of points, lines, planes, surfaces, angles, and solids.
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elliptic
Marked by deliberate obscurity of style or expression.
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  • The cones are very small, ovate and pointed.

  • The leaves are rather short, curved, and often twisted; the male catkins, in dense cylindrical whorls, fill the air of the forest with their sulphur-like pollen in May or June, and fecundate the purple female flowers, which, at first sessile and erect, then become recurved on a lengthening stalk; the ovate cones, about the length of the leaves, do not reach maturity until the autumn of the following year, and the seeds are seldom scattered until the third spring; the cone-scales terminate in a pyramidal FIG.

  • Ilex, usually a smaller tree, frequently of rather shrub-like appearance, with abundant glossy dark-green leaves, generally ovate in shape and more or less prickly at the margin, but sometimes with the edges entire; the under surface is hoary; the acorns are oblong on short stalks.

  • The leaves are broader than in most willows, and are generally either deltoid or ovate in shape, often cordate at the base, and frequently with slender petioles vertically flattened.

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