Obovate vs Elliptical - What's the difference?
obovate | elliptical |
(botany, mycology) Shaped like an egg, with the broad extremity located away from the base.
In a shape reminding of an ellipse; oval.
* 1876 , Edward Roth (translator), ,
Of, or showing ellipsis; having a word or words omitted.
(of speech) Concise, condensed.
* 1903 , ,
* early XX c. , , by O. Henry
(mathematics, rare)
Being flat and in the shape of a twice-symmetrical ellipse; oval.
As adjectives the difference between obovate and elliptical
is that obovate is shaped like an egg, with the broad extremity located away from the base while elliptical is in a shape reminding of an ellipse; oval.As a noun elliptical is
an elliptical galaxy.obovate
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(en adjective)Derived terms
* obovatelyelliptical
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Having admitted that the projectile was describing an orbit around the moon, this orbit must necessarily be elliptical ; science proves that it must be so.
- If he is sometimes elliptical and obscure, it is because he has so much to tell us. --
- Browning's dark and elliptical mode of speech, like his love of the grotesque, was simply a characteristic of his, a trick of his temperament, and had little or nothing to do with whether what he was expressing was profound or superficial.
- He was called a tramp; but that was only an elliptical way of saying that he was a philosopher, an artist, a traveller, a naturalist and a discoverer.