Word Meanings - OBOVATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Inversely ovate; ovate with the narrow end downward; as, an obovate leaf.
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- OBOVATE
Inversely ovate; ovate with the narrow end downward; as, an obovate leaf. - OVATED
Ovate. - NARROW
A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor. Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow. Gladstone. - NARROW-MINDED
Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n. - NARROWER
One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. Hannah More. - OVATE-ACUMINATE
Having an ovate form, but narrowed at the end into a slender point. - DOWNWARD
1. Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous. With downward force That drove the sand along he took his way. Dryden. 2. Descending from a head, origin, or source; - OVATE-OBLONG
Oblong. with one end narrower than the other; ovato-oblong. - NARROWLY
1. With little breadth; in a narrow manner. 2. Without much extent; contractedly. 3. With minute scrutiny; closely; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly. 4. With a little margin or space; by a small distance; hence, closely; hardly; - OVATE-ROTUNDATE
Having a form intermediate between that of an egg and a sphere; roundly ovate. - OVATE-CYLINDRACEOUS
Having a form intermediate between ovate and cylindraceous. - OVATE
Having the shape of an egg, or of the longitudinal sectior of an egg, with the broader end basal. Gray. (more info) 1. Shaped like an egg, with the lower extremity broadest. - NARROWNESS
The condition or quality of being narrow. - INVERSELY
In an inverse order or manner; by inversion; -- opposed to directly. Inversely proportional. See Directly proportional, under Directly, and Inversion, 4. - OVATE-LANCEOLATE
Having a form intermediate between ovate and lanceolate. - OVATE-SUBULATE
Having an ovate form, but with a subulate tip or extremity. - DOWNWARD; DOWNWARDS
1. From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards. "Looking downwards." Pope. Their heads they downward bent. Drayton. 2. From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, - NARROWING
1. The act of contracting, or of making or becoming less in breadth or extent. 2. The part of a stocking which is narrowed. - RENOVATE
To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew. All nature feels the reniovating force Of winter. Thomson. (more info) renovare;pref. re- re- + novare to make new, fr. novus new. See New, - INNOVATE
1. To bring in as new; to introduce as a novelty; as, to innovate a word or an act. 2. To change or alter by introducing something new; to remodel; to revolutionize. Burton. From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's - OBLONG-OVATE
Between oblong and ovate, but inclined to the latter. - SUBOVATED
Subovate. - RHOMBOID-OVATE
Between rhomboid and ovate, or oval, in shape. - BOVATE
An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres. - SUBOVATE
Nearly in the form of an egg, or of the section of an egg, but having the inferior extremity broadest; nearly ovate.