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.