ouvarovite

[UWAROWITE.] ôu-vi-răn-dra, s. [Abbreviated from ouviran drana (=watery am), the Madagascar name of these plants.] Bot.: A genus of Juncaginacem. [LATTICE-LEAF.] ov, pref. [Ovo.] ō'-val. *o-vall, a. & s. [O. Fr. oval; Fr. ovale, from Lat. ovum =an egg; Sp. oval; Ital. ovale.] A. As adjective: I. Ord. Lang .: Of the shape or figure of the outline of an egg; egg-shaped; elliptical. II. Bot .: Having the figure of an ellipse. B. As subst.: An egg-shaped figure, or a figure resembling an ellipse, but differing from it in not being symmetrical, being broader at one end than at the other.