o·vate (  v t )adj. 1. Shaped like an egg; oval. 2. Botany Broad and rounded at the base and tapering toward the end: an ovate leaf. [Latin vtus, from vum, egg; see awi- in Indo-European roots.]o vately adv. |   ovate leaf |
ovate
Adjective
shaped like an egg: the tree has bluish-green, ovate leaves [Latin ovatus egg-shaped]
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| Adj. | 1. | ovate - of a leaf shape; egg-shaped with the broader end at the base unsubdivided, simple - (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions |
| 2. | ovate - rounded like an egg rounded - curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged; "low rounded hills"; "rounded shoulders" |
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