Usually means: Beaked or having a beak.
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  1. rostrate: Merriam-Webster
  2. rostrate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rostrate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rostrate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rostrate: Vocabulary.com
  6. rostrate: Wordnik
  7. rostrate: Wiktionary
  8. rostrate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. rostrate: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Rostrate, rostrate: Dictionary.com
  11. Rostrate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. rostrate: Rhymezone
  13. Rostrate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. rostrate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. rostrate: FreeDictionary.org
  16. rostrate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. rostrate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rostrate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. rostrate: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  4. Rostrate: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rostrate)

▸ adjective:  Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate.
▸ adjective:  Furnished or adorned with beaks.

Similar:
beaked, rostellate, rostelliform, rostriferous, rostroid, rostrodorsal, rosetophylous, rosulate, racemiform, retinulate, more...

Opposite:
acauline, non-rostrate, blunt-ended

Adjectives:
operculum, posterior, protracted, long, front

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Similar:
beaked, rostellate, rostelliform, rostriferous, rostroid, rostrodorsal, rosetophylous, rosulate, racemiform, retinulate, more...

Opposite:
acauline, non-rostrate, blunt-ended

Adjectives:
operculum, posterior, protracted, long, front



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