obovate in English

adjective
1
(of a leaf) ovate with the narrower end at the base.
Juvenile plants and regrowth stems usually have obovate leaves, but these are soon deciduous and rarely appear on older stems.

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1. To be more precise, Chokecherry leaves are obovate, …

2. Berberis thunbergii, commonly called Japanese barberry, is a spiny, broad-rounded, deciduous shrub with obovate green leaves

3. Berberis thunbergii, commonly called Japanese barberry, is a spiny, broad-rounded, deciduous shrub with obovate green leaves. It typically matures to 5' tall and as wide

4. Extremely winter hardy, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi 'Massachusetts' (Bearberry) is a slow-growing, creeping, evergreen shrub with trailing red stems studded with small, leathery, glossy, obovate, dark green leaves

5. Campanulate corolla of 6-8 cm of diameter of yellow or pale pink colour with dark red centre, formed by 5 obovate 5 cm long and 3 cm broad petals, and 2 cm long staminal column

6. Achenes broadly obovate nearly obdeltoid, 1-1.5 mm long, 1 mm wide or less, subcompressed-triangular, apiculate at apex, cuneate at base, faces flattish, stramineous-brown; hypogynous bristles 6 (sometimes 5), light brown, slightly exceeding achene, the longer 2 mm long or more, subcomressed, retrorsely scabrous with loose Aculeae except at

7. Petiole 5–10 mm, glabrous; leaf blade oblong to rarely obovate-oblong, (6–)8–16 × 2.5–5 cm, herbaceous to thinly leathery, both surfaces glabrous, abaxially paler and usually with a pair of purplish black basal nectaries near margin, adaxially shining, base broadly cuneate, margin sparsely and shallowly Acicularly serrate or sometimes