Word Meanings - FIDDLE-SHAPED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side. Gray.

Related words: (words related to FIDDLE-SHAPED)

• HOLLOW-HEARTED
  Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
• OVATED
  Ovate.
• HOLLOWLY
  Insincerely; deceitfully. Shak.
• OVATE-ACUMINATE
  Having an ovate form, but narrowed at the end into a slender point.
• OVATE-OBLONG
  Oblong. with one end narrower than the other; ovato-oblong.
• HOLLOW-HORNED
  Having permanent horns with a bony core, as cattle.
• OVATE-ROTUNDATE
  Having a form intermediate between that of an egg and a sphere; roundly ovate.
• OVATE-CYLINDRACEOUS
  Having a form intermediate between ovate and cylindraceous.
• HOLLOW
  1. A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree. 2. A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel. Forests
• OVATE
  Having the shape of an egg, or of the longitudinal sectior of an egg, with the broader end basal. Gray. (more info) 1. Shaped like an egg, with the lower extremity broadest.
• HOLLOWNESS
  1. State of being hollow. Bacon. 2. Insincerity; unsoundness; treachery. South.
• INVERSELY
  In an inverse order or manner; by inversion; -- opposed to directly. Inversely proportional. See Directly proportional, under Directly, and Inversion, 4.
• OVATE-LANCEOLATE
  Having a form intermediate between ovate and lanceolate.
• OVATE-SUBULATE
  Having an ovate form, but with a subulate tip or extremity.
• OBOVATE
  Inversely ovate; ovate with the narrow end downward; as, an obovate leaf.
• RENOVATE
  To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew. All nature feels the reniovating force Of winter. Thomson. (more info) renovare;pref. re- re- + novare to make new, fr. novus new. See New,
• INNOVATE
  1. To bring in as new; to introduce as a novelty; as, to innovate a word or an act. 2. To change or alter by introducing something new; to remodel; to revolutionize. Burton. From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's
• OBLONG-OVATE
  Between oblong and ovate, but inclined to the latter.
• SUBOVATED
  Subovate.
• RHOMBOID-OVATE
  Between rhomboid and ovate, or oval, in shape.
• BOVATE
  An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.
• SUBOVATE
  Nearly in the form of an egg, or of the section of an egg, but having the inferior extremity broadest; nearly ovate.