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- English Word Rostel Definition same as Rostellum.
- English Word Rostella Definition of Rostellum
- English Word Rostellar Definition Pertaining to a rostellum.
- English Word Rostellate Definition Having a rostellum, or small beak; terminating in a beak.
- English Word Rostelliform Definition Having the form of a rostellum, or small beak.
- English Word Rostellum Definition A small beaklike process or extension of some part; a small rostrum; as, the rostellum of the stigma of violets, or of the operculum of many mosses; the rostellum on the head of a tapeworm.
- English Word Roster Definition A register or roll showing the order in which officers, enlisted men, companies, or regiments are called on to serve.
- English Word Rostra Definition See Rostrum, 2.
- English Word Rostra Definition of Rostrum
- English Word Rostral Definition 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.
- English Word Rostrate Definition Alt. of Rostrated
- English Word Rostrated Definition Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate.
- English Word Rostrated Definition Furnished or adorned with beaks; as, rostrated galleys.
- English Word Rostrifera Definition A division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile.
- English Word Rostriform Definition Having the form of a beak.
- English Word Rostrula Definition of Rostrulum
- English Word Rostrulum Definition A little rostrum, or beak, as of an insect.
- English Word Rostrum Definition The beak or head of a ship.
- English Word Rostrum Definition 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.
- English Word Rostrum Definition Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker.
- English Word Rostrum Definition Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds.
- English Word Rostrum Definition The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera.
- English Word Rostrum Definition The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of Littorina.
- English Word Rostrum Definition The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn.
- English Word Rostrum Definition Same as Rostellum.
- English Word Rostrum Definition The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic.
- English Word Rostrum Definition A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form.
- English Word Rostrums Definition of Rostrum
- English Word Rosulate Definition Arranged in little roselike clusters; -- said of leaves and bracts.
- English Word Rosy Definition Resembling a rose in color, form, or qualities; blooming; red; blushing; also, adorned with roses.