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rostrate

[ros-treyt]
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adjective
  1. furnished with a rostrum.
Often ros·trat·ed.

Origin of rostrate

1350–1400; < Latin rōstrātus having a beak, curved at the end, equivalent to rōstr(um) rostrum + -ātus -ate1
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Examples from the Web for rostrate

Historical Examples

  • Rostrate, bearing a beak (Rostrum) or a prolonged appendage.

    The Elements of Botany

    Asa Gray

  • Promuscis: an extended mouth structure: has been applied to the long tongue of bees and to the rostrate structure in Hemiptera.

  • Rostrate: the head, when it has a long protraction bearing the mouth parts.

  • Valve lanceolate, with produced or rostrate apices; pseudo-nodule wide, excentric.

  • Valve linear with rostrate apices; cost robust; stri delicate, 20 in 10 .

British Dictionary definitions for rostrate

rostrate

adjective
  1. biology having a beak or beaklike process
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rostrate in Medicine

rostrate

(rŏs′trāt′, -trĭt)
adj.
  1. Having a beaklike part.
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