释义 |
ovato-|əʊˈveɪtəʊ| combining advb. form of L. ōvāt-us ovate, used in same sense as ‘ovately’, ‘ovate-’, as ovato-acuminate, ovato-conical, ovato-cordate, ovato-deltoid, ovato-ellipsoidal, ovato-globose, ovato-lanceolate, ovato-oblong, ovato-orbicular, ovato-pyriform, ovato-quadrangular, ovato-rotundate, ovato-triangular, etc.
1752Sir J. Hill Hist. Anim. 284 The body of the Ostracion is of an odd figure..it is oval, or ovato-oblong; or, finally, ovato-quadrangular, or approaching to conic. 1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxvi. (1794) 400 The leaves are ovato-cordate or egg-shaped. 1838Babington in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club I. No. 6. 177 Leaves ovato-triangular, unequally sinuato-dentate. 1852Dana Crust. i. 95 Horns ovato-lanceolate, acute, entire. 1882Nature XXV. 572 Ovato-acuminate implements, scrapers, flakes and nuclei. |