Usually means: Leaf shape, broader at tip.
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  1. obovate: Merriam-Webster
  2. obovate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. obovate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. obovate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. obovate: Vocabulary.com
  6. obovate: Wordnik
  7. Obovate: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. obovate: Wiktionary
  9. obovate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. obovate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Obovate, obovate: Dictionary.com
  12. Obovate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Obovate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. obovate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. obovate: Rhymezone
  16. Obovate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. obovate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. obovate: FreeDictionary.org
  19. obovate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. obovate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. obovate: Encyclopedia

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Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. obovate: Rhododendron Glossary
  3. Bryological (No longer online)
  4. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  5. Obovate: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (obovate)

▸ adjective:  (botany, mycology) Shaped like an egg, with the broad extremity located away from the base.

Similar:
simple, unsubdivided, subobovoid, ovate, subovoid, anatropous, obtusely umbonate, acephalous, disciform, ooidal, more...

Opposite:
linear, lanceolate, oblong, elliptical, ovate

Phrases:
obovate leaf, more...

Adjectives:
roundish, large, oblong, long, small, capsule, broad, ovary, aperture, standard, brown

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Similar:
simple, unsubdivided, subobovoid, ovate, subovoid, anatropous, obtusely umbonate, acephalous, disciform, ooidal, more...

Opposite:
linear, lanceolate, oblong, elliptical, ovate

Phrases:
obovate leaf, more...

Adjectives:
roundish, large, oblong, long, small, capsule, broad, ovary, aperture, standard, brown



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