What is "pandurate"

Pandurate \Pan"du*rate\, Panduriform \Pan*du"ri*form\, a. [L. pandura a pandore + -form: cf. F. panduriforme.]

1. Obovate, with a concavity in each side, like the body of a violin; fiddle-shaped; as, a panduriform leaf; panduriform color markings of an animal.

2. (Bot.) Shaped like a fiddle; -- of a leaf.

   Syn: fiddle-shaped.

a. (context botany of leaves English) Having a shape reminiscent of a fiddle; obovate with a pair of sinuous indentations near the base.

adj. of a leaf shape [syn: panduriform, fiddle-shaped]