Rostrate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having a beaklike part.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate.
  • adj. Furnished or adorned with beaks.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate.
  • adj. Furnished or adorned with beaks.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Furnished or adorned with beaks: as, rostrated galleys.
  • In botany, beaked; having a process resembling the beak of a bird.
  • In conchology, having a beak-like extension of the shell, in which the canal is situated; canaliculate; rostriferous. See cuts under murex and Rostellaria.
  • In entomology, provided with a rostrum or snout-like prolongation of the head, as the weevils; rhynchophorous.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. having a beak or beaklike snout or proboscis
  • Equivalent
    beaked    rostrated   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    beaked    rostellate