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Definition of Heart-shaped
1. Adjective. (of a leaf) shaped like a heart.
Definition of Heart-shaped
1. Adjective. Having the traditional shape of a heart (?), that is pointed at one end and indented at the opposite side. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heart-shaped
Literary usage of Heart-shaped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Gravelly shores and calcareous rocks, especially northw. May, June. (En.)
partly clasping by the heart-shaped base ; petals (bright ..."
2. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"Y. Bowyer's Early Heari, known by its obtuse heart-shaped, amber-coloured ...
It may be known by its large size, heart-shaped, pale- yellow and red fruit, ..."
3. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"V. Labrusca, the Wild Vine, or Fox Grape, has heart- shaped leaves, rather 3-lobed,
acutely toothed beneath ; the peduncles ..."
4. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants by William Withering, William Macgillivray (1837)
"Petals inversely heart-shaped, all nearly equal. Styles very short, greatly
dilated at the base. rows of flat prickles and rough intermediate ribs. ..."
5. The Indiana Weed Book by Willis Stanley Blatchley (1912)
"Showing forms of leaves: a, ovate; 6, cordate or heart-shaped; r, sagittate or
arrow-shaped- d, hastate; e, ..."
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