Definition of "obovate" [ob•o•vate]

• Botany Egg-shaped and flat, with the narrow end attached to the stalk: an obovate leaf. (adjective)

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• "Dodonaea microzyga, F.M. Somewhat viscid, almost glabrous; leaves with 1 to 2 pairs of small obovate-cuneate leaflets; in front rounded, or truncate, or retuse, or sometimes 3-toothed, flat at the margin; rachis dilated; fruit-bearing pedicels solitary; capsules 3 to 4-celled; valves cymbeo-semiorbicular, all around broadly winged; the wing rounded-blunt on both extremities; dissepiments persistent with the columella."
• "Leaves opposite, shiny, elliptic to obovate, broadly ovate with a sharp tip."
• "LEAVES: Variable, smooth or slightly rough, narrow and long, ovate to obovate or broadly so."