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They suck food through strawlike beaks called rostrums.

From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2021

There has been plenty of pomp and circumstance, and even more long-windedness, as governors from coast to coast stepped to rostrums this month to deliver their annual State of the State addresses.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2018

It's incredible how focused and single-minded you have to be, and how hard you have to train, even to think about going to the Olympics, let alone standing on any rostrums.

From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2010

Twice during the week, the President mounted rostrums to defend his stand.

From Time Magazine Archive

From newspapers, bill boards and rostrums was hurled the injunction to buy the War Loan and help mould the Silver Bullet that would crush the Germans.

From The War After the War by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick