English Explanatory Dictionary

rostrate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

rostrate more rostrate most rostrate

Etymology

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

Synonyms

beaky

Derived words

birostrate brevirostrate erostrate rostrated rostrately subrostrate
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