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rostrum
  1. A dais, pulpit, or similar platform for a speaker, conductor, or other performer.
  2. A platform for a film or television camera.
  3. The projecting prow of a rowed warship, such as a trireme.
  4. (zoology) The beak.
  5. (zoology) The beak-shaped projection on the head of insects such as weevils.
  6. (zoology) The snout of a dolphin.
  7. (anatomy) The oral or nasal region of a human used for anatomical location (i.e. rostral)
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “To make the link, there is a platform that can rise or fall on scissor jacks; it can act as a goods lift or a rostrum for speakers.”
      “Inside the hotel ballroom, he was at a rostrum giving a rousing speech to a packed house.”
      “Offspring from each female were measured from the rostrum to the end of the last large coxa.”
rostellum
  1. A small beak-like process or extension; a small rostrum.
  2. (botany) A projecting part of the column in the flower of an orchid that separates the male stamen from the female gynoecium.
  3. (biology) A retractable protruding part at the anterior end of a soft-bodied tapeworm; the scolex from which it protrudes is often armed with hooks which serve to keep it in place attached to the host.
  4. Examples:
    1. “The rostellum is normally present, rarely absent, and is armed with two alternating rows of hooks of characteristic taenioid shape.”
      “The rostellum ends in a holdfast by which the cell is fixed to the gut wall of its host.”
      “Asa Gray's observations on the rostellum of Gymnadenia are very imperfect, yet worth looking at.”
rostral
  1. A scale in reptiles on the median plate of the tip of the snout that borders the mouth opening.
rostrulum
  1. (anatomy) A little rostrum, or beak, as of an insect.
rostromedulla
rostel
rostrula
  1. plural of rostrulum
rostella
  1. plural of rostellum
rostellums
  1. plural of rostellum
rostra
  1. plural of rostrum
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “One of the additional sidelights of this work was that the rostra of both Palaemon and Nephrops were among the last recognizable fragments.”
      “The belemnites sampled in this study were mostly translucent and retained the primary concentric banding that characterizes belemnite rostra.”
      “The anapsids start out with elongate jaws and rostra, but the entire muzzle becomes progressively shorter across their phylospace.”
rostrals
  1. plural of rostral
rostrums
rostels
  1. plural of rostel
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