Word Meanings - OBOVATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Inversely ovate; ovate with the narrow end downward; as, an obovate leaf.

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• OBOVATE
  Inversely ovate; ovate with the narrow end downward; as, an obovate leaf.
• OVATED
  Ovate.
• NARROW
  A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor. Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow. Gladstone.
• NARROW-MINDED
  Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n.
• NARROWER
  One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. Hannah More.
• OVATE-ACUMINATE
  Having an ovate form, but narrowed at the end into a slender point.
• DOWNWARD
  1. Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous. With downward force That drove the sand along he took his way. Dryden. 2. Descending from a head, origin, or source;
• OVATE-OBLONG
  Oblong. with one end narrower than the other; ovato-oblong.
• NARROWLY
  1. With little breadth; in a narrow manner. 2. Without much extent; contractedly. 3. With minute scrutiny; closely; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly. 4. With a little margin or space; by a small distance; hence, closely; hardly;
• OVATE-ROTUNDATE
  Having a form intermediate between that of an egg and a sphere; roundly ovate.
• OVATE-CYLINDRACEOUS
  Having a form intermediate between ovate and cylindraceous.
• OVATE
  Having the shape of an egg, or of the longitudinal sectior of an egg, with the broader end basal. Gray. (more info) 1. Shaped like an egg, with the lower extremity broadest.
• NARROWNESS
  The condition or quality of being narrow.
• INVERSELY
  In an inverse order or manner; by inversion; -- opposed to directly. Inversely proportional. See Directly proportional, under Directly, and Inversion, 4.
• OVATE-LANCEOLATE
  Having a form intermediate between ovate and lanceolate.
• OVATE-SUBULATE
  Having an ovate form, but with a subulate tip or extremity.
• DOWNWARD; DOWNWARDS
  1. From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards. "Looking downwards." Pope. Their heads they downward bent. Drayton. 2. From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery,
• NARROWING
  1. The act of contracting, or of making or becoming less in breadth or extent. 2. The part of a stocking which is narrowed.
• RENOVATE
  To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew. All nature feels the reniovating force Of winter. Thomson. (more info) renovare;pref. re- re- + novare to make new, fr. novus new. See New,
• INNOVATE
  1. To bring in as new; to introduce as a novelty; as, to innovate a word or an act. 2. To change or alter by introducing something new; to remodel; to revolutionize. Burton. From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's
• OBLONG-OVATE
  Between oblong and ovate, but inclined to the latter.
• SUBOVATED
  Subovate.
• RHOMBOID-OVATE
  Between rhomboid and ovate, or oval, in shape.
• BOVATE
  An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.
• SUBOVATE
  Nearly in the form of an egg, or of the section of an egg, but having the inferior extremity broadest; nearly ovate.