rostrate

English

Etymology

From Latin rostratus, from rostrum (“beak”).

Adjective

rostrate (comparative more rostrate, superlative most rostrate)

1. Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate.
2. Furnished or adorned with beaks.

   a rostrate pillar

Synonyms

• See beaky

Derived terms

• birostrate
• erostrate
• subrostrate

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rostrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Adjective

rōstrāte

1. vocative masculine singular of rōstrātus