Rostrate

Word ROSTRATE
Character 8
Hyphenation ros trate
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Definitions and meanings of "Rostrate"

What do we mean by rostrate?

Having a rostrum. adjective

Furnished or adorned with beaks: as, rostrated galleys.

In botany, beaked; having a process resembling the beak of a bird.

In conchology, having a beak-like extension of the shell, in which the canal is situated; canaliculate; rostriferous. See cuts under murex and Rostellaria.

In entomology, provided with a rostrum or snout-like prolongation of the head, as the weevils; rhynchophorous.

Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate. adjective

Furnished or adorned with beaks. adjective

Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate. adjective

Furnished or adorned with beaks. adjective

Having a beak or beaklike snout or proboscis adjective

Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate.

Furnished or adorned with beaks.

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The word "rostrate" in example sentences

S.: -- "Upper lip of corolla not rostrate, with the margin on each side furnished with a triangular tooth immediately below the apex, but without any tooth below the middle." ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

[CORBULA CUNEATA] Shell small, thick, ovate, concentrically striate; anterior margin rounded; posterior elongated, or somewhat rostrate. ❋ Unknown (1858)

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