How to pronounce ovate

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What ovate means

adjective

Shaped like an egg, wider at one end

In a sentence: The ovate leaves were wide at the bottom and came to a point at the tip.

Where it comes from: It comes from Latin ovatus, shaped like an egg, from ovum, an egg.

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