Definition of ovates:
(adj) :
Shaped like an egg.
(adj) :
(botany, of leaves) With the broadest extremity near the base.
(n) :
(archaeology) An egg-shaped hand axe.
(v) :
(transitive) To give someone an ovation.
(v) :
(intransitive) To applaud enthusiastically.
(n) :
A member at a certain grade of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, a neo-druidism order based in England.