adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate.
2. 2
   Furnished or adorned with beaks.

   "'a rostrate pillar"

Adjective

1. 1
   having a beak or beaklike snout or proboscis wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

aquilinebeakedbeakybeakybilledcrooked

Etymology

From Latin rostratus, from rostrum (“beak”).

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