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ovate leaf (Elizabeth Morales) |
- Shaped like an egg; oval.
- Botany. Broad and rounded at the base and tapering toward the end: an ovate leaf.
[Latin ōvātus, from ōvum, egg.]
ovately o'vate'ly adv.
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(ovate handaxe) [Ar]
A type of Acheulian bifacially worked handaxe with an oval or elliptical shape. Most are relatively thin in cross-section, and have either a flat or deliberately twisted profile.
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Ovate can mean:
- Shaped like a two-dimensional section through an egg. This is commonly used in botany, for example to describe leaves. It should be distinguished from ovoid, which means shaped like an egg in three dimensions.
- A junior rank in an organisation in which the highest rank is called "druid". See gorsedd, and neo-druidism.
- the second of three titles used by the pre-Christian priesthood of Britain ("ofydd" in Welsh). See vates.
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