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Ovate [ Botany ]

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names

     
  Ovate is   the condition where the shape of an organ or a part of an organism is narrower at the tip with the broadest part near the base.  
     
Ovate (from Latin ovum  “egg”) means egg-shaped  and is applied to 2-dimensional forms. Compare whit ovoid (3-dimensional forms)
(For example the shape of an ovate leaf )
  Compare with:  Obovate (inversely ovate), Ovoid, Obovoid (inversely ovoid), Oval  
Ovate leaf   [ Botany ]
     
  Ovate is the condition where the shape of a leaf or leaflet is narrower at the tip with the broadest part near the base closer to the petiole.  
     
See: leaf shape
     

 


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