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Definition of Rostrate
1. Adjective. Having a beak or beaklike snout or proboscis.
Definition of Rostrate
1. a. Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate.
Definition of Rostrate
1. having a rostrum [adj]
Medical Definition of Rostrate
1. Having a beak or hook. Origin: L. Rostratus (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rostrate
Literary usage of Rostrate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1873)
"135), rostrate, (y) —Glumes ... not rostrate or but »lightly &o Nits. 145—147 —
Pt'ri-rynia r «strate, ... rostrate,—tho beak short, ..."
2. Flora scotica, or, A description of Scottish plants, arranged both according by William Jackson Hooker (1821)
"D.flavescens, stems branched, leaves long lanceolate serrulate pointing in all
directions crisped when dry, capsule oblong erect, lid rostrate. Muse. ..."
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