| 单词 |
rostrate |
| 释义 |
rostrate, a.|ˈrɒstrət|
[ad. L. rostrāt-us, f. rostrum beak: see -ate.]
†1. = rostral a. 2. Obs.
1601Holland Pliny vi. iv. I. 456 Forasmuch as we are light vpon the mention of Naual or Rostrate coronets, this would be noted [etc.]. 1674Evelyn Navig. Misc. Writ. (1825) 645 Their rostrate crowns, and that pretty insolence by act of senate allow'd to C. Duillius.
2. Having, or furnished with, a rostrum; terminating in a rostrum:
a. Bot.
1819Pantologia, Rostrate fruit, in botany, a beaked fruit. Having a process resembling the beak of a bird: as in geranium, scandix, pecten. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 61 The apex..rostrate, and elongated in various ways beyond the insertion of the filament. 1870J. D. Hooker Stud. Flora 13 Nuphar luteum... Berry ovoid rostrate.
b. Ent., Zool., etc.
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 307 Rostrate.., when the anterior part of the head is elongated and attenuated into a cylindrical or many-sided rostrum or beak. 1848Proc. Berw. Nat. Club II. 305 Body ovate-oblong, narrowed and rostrate in front. 1884Geol. Mag. 560 In other forms, the anterior extremity becomes nasute or rostrate. |
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