obcordate

American  

[ob-kawr-deyt] / ɒbˈkɔr deɪt /

adjective

Botany.

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

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obcordate British  

/ ɒbˈkɔːdeɪt /

adjective

1. botany heart-shaped and attached at the pointed end

   obcordate leaves

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Etymology

Origin of obcordate

First recorded in 1765–75; ob- + cordate

Example Sentences

PARTHÈNIUM, L. Heads many-flowered, inconspicuously radiate; ray-flowers 5, with very short and broad obcordate ligules not projecting beyond the woolly disk, pistillate and fertile; disk-flowers staminate with imperfect styles, sterile.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Thallus obcordate, floating or rarely terrestrial; capsules not protruding, at length exposed by a cleft in the central groove.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

The first glume is large, broadly obovate or obcordate, cuneate, villous with brown hairs, 7- to 9-nerved.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

The remaining glumes fourth to seventh are borne by the rachilla, thinly chartaceous, broadly obcordate or obovate, gradually diminishing in size, purple-tinged, 3- to 5-nerved, scaberulous.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

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

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 by MacGillivray, John