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ovate

  (ō'vāt')

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ovate

ovate leaf (Elizabeth Morales)

1. Shaped like an egg; oval.
2. Botany. Broad and rounded at the base and tapering toward the end: an ovate leaf.

[Latin ōvātus, from ōvum, egg.]

adjective

Resembling an egg in shape: oval, oviform, ovoid, ovoidal. See geometry.

Oval, with the broader end at the base.

Ovate can mean:

• Shaped like an egg. This is commonly used to describe leaves, such as those of the trumpet vine.
• 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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