Crossword-Solution: OBLANCEOLATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Oblanceolate | a. | Lanceolate in the reversed order, that is, narrowing toward the point of attachment more than toward the apex. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| of eg a leaf, like a lance-head reversed | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETARE
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greedy person
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Sentences with OBLANCEOLATE (5)
Thorns numerous, straight, long (2-4 inches), slender; leaves thick, smooth, dark green, shining on the upper surface, pale beneath, turning dark orange red in autumn; outline obovate-oblanceolate, serrate above, entire or nearly so near base; apex acute or rounded; base decidedly wedge-shaped shaped; leafstalks short.
Leaves simple, irregularly alternate, often apparently whorled when clustered at the ends of the shoots, 2-5 inches long, one-half as wide; at first bright green beneath, dullish-green above, becoming dark glossy green above, paler beneath, obovate or oblanceolate to oval; entire, few or obscurely toothed, or wavy-margined above the center; apex more or less abruptly acute; base acutish; firm, smooth, finely sub-veined; stem short, flat, grooved, minutely ciliate, at least when young; stipules none.
Fruit acute and 2-edged or margined at base and gradually spreading into an oblanceolate or linear-spatulate wing as in the Red Ash.
West India tea (Bot.), a shrubby plant (Capraria biflora) having oblanceolate toothed leaves which are sometimes used in the West Indies as a substitute for tea.
Those broadest at the apex-- _obovate_, when inversely ovate; _oblanceolate_, when inversely lanceolate; _spatulate_, when rounded above, and long and narrow below, like a druggist's spatula; _cuneate_, or wedge-shaped, when broad above, tapering by straight lines to an acute base; _obcordate_, when inversely cordate.