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Definition of Obovate leaf
1. Noun. An egg-shaped leaf with the narrower end at the base.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obovate Leaf
Literary usage of Obovate leaf
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Familiar Lectures on Botany: Explaining the Structure, Classification, and by Lincoln Phelps (1854)
"... the veins next lite base are longest ; in the obovate leaf, those at the apex
are longest ; in the elliptical leaf they are curved ; thus the outline of ..."
2. Class Book of Botany: Being an Introduction to the Study of the Vegetable by John Hutton Balfour (1852)
"116); when the apex of an obovate leaf is straight, or not uniformly Fig. 274.
lig. ... 117); when an obovate leaf, with a round apex, tapers to the base, ..."
3. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Inflorescence pubescent; spines short and stout: leaf-blades broad, ovate or
obovate, Leaf-blades broad, rhombic, lobed and incised. * 3. C. erythropoda. ..."
4. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1902)
"Among my collections of these anomalous forms may be noted a simple obovate leaf
closely resembling Phyllites ..."
5. The Child's Botany by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1831)
"What is an ovate leaf I What is an obovate leaf ? What is an oval leaf ? What is
a cordate leaf ? What is a lanceolate leaf! ..."
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