Definition of "ovate" []

• Shaped like an egg; oval. (adjective)
• Botany Broad and rounded at the base and tapering toward the end: an ovate leaf. (adjective)

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• "Towering displays of the emptiest rhetoric, curmudgeons who refuse to 'ovate', career lickspittles who ovate with surplus vigour to camera ... .."
• "Todd Smith's engaging small paintings create intricate patterns out of myriad, carefully hand-painted ovate dots..."
• "Can a thing or person which is ovate also be willowy?"