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Definition of Obovoid
1. ovoid with the narrow end at the base [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obovoid
Literary usage of Obovoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1878)
"1. gemina, Hort ; radical leaves narrowed below, pod obovoid large much constricted
at the suture. — VAR. ..."
2. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1889)
"According to his theory, if the shape of the uterus is natural, that is obovoid,
then the presentation will be natural or head downwards; and if the shape ..."
3. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1901)
"pinnatifid; fruit an obovoid turgid bur, mostly solitary in the axils, pubescent
and somewhat strigose; leaves once or the lower twice bearing 4 ..."
4. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"... fleshy, surrounding base of 3-celled ovary. Style short cylindrical ; stigma
3- or 5-lobed. Capsule turbinate or obovoid, 3-celled, ..."
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