Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a rostrum.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate.
- adjective Furnished or adorned with beaks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
process resembling thebeak of abird ;beaked ;rostellate . - adjective Furnished or adorned with beaks.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a beak or beaklike snout or proboscis
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin rōstrātus, from rōstrum, beak; see rostrum.]
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Latin rostratus, from rostrum ("beak").
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Examples
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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."
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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[CORBULA CUNEATA] Shell small, thick, ovate, concentrically striate; anterior margin rounded; posterior elongated, or somewhat rostrate.
biocon commented on the word rostrate
In reference to Etymologies above, the "o" of L. rostrātus and L. rostrum is short instead of long.
August 10, 2011