Vocabulary : Rostra to Rostrums

Rostra : See Rostrum, 2. ;; of Rostrum
Rostral : Of or pertaining to the beak or snout of an animal, or the beak of a ship; resembling a rostrum, esp., the rostra at Rome, or their decorations.
Rostrate : Alt. of Rostrated
Rostrated : Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate. ;; Furnished or adorned with beaks; as, rostrated galleys.
Rostrifera : A division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile.

Rostriform : Having the form of a beak.
Rostrula : of Rostrulum
Rostrulum : A little rostrum, or beak, as of an insect.
Rostrum : The beak or head of a ship. ;; The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators. ;; Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker. ;; Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds. ;; The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera. ;; The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of Littorina. ;; The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn. ;; Same as Rostellum. ;; The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic. ;; A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form.
Rostrums : of Rostrum

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