ovate

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Ovate leaf form

ovate (comparative more ovate, superlative most ovate)

Shaped like an egg.
- 1852, William Macgillivray, A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory, page 573:
  The Geese, Aɴsᴇʀɪɴᴁ, have the body ovate, the head small, the bill stout and somewhat conical; the legs rather long; the wings of great length and breadth.
(botany, of leaves) With the broadest extremity near the base.

shaped like an egg — see egg-shaped

botany, of leaves: broadest near the base

ovate (plural ovates)

(archaeology) An egg-shaped hand axe.
- 2012, Paul Pettitt, Mark White, The British Palaeolithic, page 122:
  Slightly derived handaxes from the Mildenhall glaciofluvial sands, generally in fresh condition and dominated by ovates and cordates.

See vates.

ovate (plural ovates)

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An Irish bard.
A member at a certain grade of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, a neo-druidism order based in England.
A modern-day bard of a gorsedd, especially one acknowledged at an eisteddfod.

Inflected form of ovātus, perfect passive participle of ovō (“rejoice, applaud”).

ovāte

Inflected form of ōvātus, from ōvum (“egg”).

ōvāte

ovate