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Definition of "obcordate" [ob•cor•date]

  • Botany Heart-shaped, with the point of attachment at the narrow end: an obcordate leaf. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "obcordate" in a sentence
  • "HIBISCUS. with obcordate tonentose leaves, and pink flowers; both these last were very handsome shrubs."
  • "The _first glume_ is cuneately obovate or obcordate, yellowish with red brown tips or dark brown with yellow tips, chartaceous below, membranous, hyaline and ciliate at the truncate, emarginate or retuse apex, 7 - to 9-nerved, the nerves abruptly ceasing towards the apex."
  • "The first glume is large, broadly obovate or obcordate, cuneate, villous with brown hairs, 7 - to 9-nerved."