Crossword-Solution: OBOVATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Obovate | a. | Inversely ovate; ovate with the narrow end downward; as, an obovate leaf. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “OBOVATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Inversely egg-shaped | 1 answer |
| Inversely ovate: Bot. | 1 answer |
| Like a rounded leaf. | 1 answer |
| Narrow at the base, as leaves | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZEAECM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with OBOVATE (5)
The fruit varies in the thickness and veining of the skin, and, lastly, in shape, being spherical, oblong, oval, or obovate.[123] I cultivated fifty-four varieties, and, considering how greatly the fruit differs, it was curious how closely similar the flowers were in all these kinds.
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.
Here Ceratostemma variegatum is very common, and has larger, broader and more obovate leaves, than before observed; Polypodium Wallichianum, a Begonia and Orchideae are common on its boulders.
Fruit large, often very large, 3½ inches wide and 3 inches to 4 inches high, roundish obovate, uneven, and bossed in its outline.
The leaves are also smaller than those of that species; obovate, lanceolate, denticulate, and very mealy underneath.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1944–2013).