Obovate in a Sentence
  • The leaf in its contour is somewhat obovate, or inversely egg-shaped, and its base is oblique.
  • Corolla white, the blade 7-10 mm long, narrowly obovate, notched to about midlength.
  • Its leaves are very stiff and leathery, and distinguish the variety by their more or less obovate outline.
  • Rhododendron Formosum - There are two very distinct varieties of this in cultivation-the one has narrow leaves, in shape and size almost like those of an Indian Azalea; the other has them many times larger, obovate, and 5 inches long.