Usually means: Leaf shape resembling an egg.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word ovate:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. ovate: Merriam-Webster
  2. ovate, ovate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ovate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ovate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ovate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ovate, ovate: Wordnik
  7. ovate: Wiktionary
  8. ovate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. ovate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ovate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Ovate, ovate: Dictionary.com
  12. ovate (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Ovate (leaf), Ovate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Ovate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. ovate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. ovate: Rhymezone
  17. Ovate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. ovate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. ovate: FreeDictionary.org
  20. ovate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. ovate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ovate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. ovate: Rhododendron Glossary
  5. Bryological (No longer online)
  6. ovate: Mussel Glossary
  7. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  8. Ovate: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ovate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See ovates as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ovate)

adjective:  Shaped like an egg.
adjective:  (botany, of leaves) With the broadest extremity near the base.
noun:  (archaeology) An egg-shaped hand axe.
noun:  An Irish bard.
noun:  A member at a certain grade of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, a neo-druidism order based in England.
noun:  A modern-day bard of a gorsedd, especially one acknowledged at an eisteddfod.

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