rostellate

[ros-tl-eyt, -it, ro-stel-it]

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adjective

having a rostellum.

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Origin of rostellate

1820–30; < Latin rōstell(um) rostellum + -ate¹

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Moggridge figures a flower of Ophrys insectifera in which the rostellate process was replaced by an anther.
Vegetable Teratology
Maxwell T. Masters