Definitions for obcordate

obcordate ob·cor·date

Spelling: [ob-kawr-deyt]
IPA: /ɒbˈkɔr deɪt/

Obcordate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 475 anagrams from letters in obcordate (abcdeoort).

Definitions for obcordate

adjective

  1. heart-shaped, with the attachment at the pointed end, as a leaf.

Origin of obcordate

First recorded in 1765-75; ob- + cordate

Examples for obcordate

The most remarkable modification of M3 in Cratogeomys is the obcordate pattern developed in P. merriami of the castanops-group.

Each petal has its tip inflexed, giving it an obcordate appearance.

There are fine, spreading hairs on the leafstalks, and the leaflets are obcordate and toothed.

Antheridia in an oval or obcordate disk immersed in the apex of the thallus.

Sometimes they are umbilicate below, so that a vertical section would be obcordate.

Owing to the rotation of the posterior loph, the apex of the obcordate tooth is at its lingual side.

Also another Hibiscus, with obcordate tomentose leaves, and pink flowers; both these last were very handsome shrubs.

obcordate: inversely heart-shaped, with the point applied to the base of another object or part.

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