ovate

o·vate Audio Help (ō'vāt')

adj.

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; see awi- in Indo-European roots.]
o'vate'ly adv.

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