Sentence examples for ovate from inspiring English sources
"ovate" is a correct word in written English
You can use it to describe something that is egg-shaped or broadly rounded. For example, you could say, "The ovate leaves of this plant add a touch of elegance to any garden."
adjective
Shaped like an egg.
Eggs are deposited on leaves or twigs of the host plant; the nymphs, flattened and broadly ovate, usually feed clustered together.
The leaves, 5 12.5 cm (2 5 inches) long, are glossy and light green in colour and ovate to elliptic in outline; the flowers are small and inconspicuous.
Among flowering plants, various species of Eucalyptus have juvenile leaves that are ovate and mature leaves that are sickle-shaped.
It bears ovate leaves and narrowly bell-shaped, lemon-yellow, six-parted flowers that are about 1.5 inches (4 cm) long.
The members of Saintpaulia are small perennial herbs with thick, hairy, ovate leaves.
The plants produce alternating, ovate to oblong leaves toward the lower part of the stem, which is capped by a tall, one-sided cluster of pendulous, bell-shaped flowers, each of which may be up to 6.5 cm (2.5 inches) long.
They have toothed ovate leaves arranged oppositely along the stem.
The leaves of Liliales are either straplike with parallel venation or ovate with palmate veins and reticulate minor venation (Smilacaceae).
Sweetsop is an evergreen plant with thin oblong ovate leaves.
Photograph: Jens N Rgaard Larsen/AFP With a nod towards the great Maggie Smith, who was fond of remarking during her Broadway stand in 1990 in Lettice and Lovage: "Ah, look, they're ovating again," I wonder if the Dame herself has noticed the extent to which British audiences these days are getting in on a time-honoured American routine - namely, the standing ovation during the curtain call.
The audience standing-ovates.
