ovate leaf

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   an egg-shaped leaf with the broader end at the base

   Broadersimple leaf

Questions about ovate leaf

What does ovate leaf mean?

ovate leaf means "an egg-shaped leaf with the broader end at the base".

Is ovate leaf a common word?

ovate leaf is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.