erostrate

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adjective

Not rostrate; lacking a beak.

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Meanings

adjectiveerostrate (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot rostrate; lacking a beak.

    Achenia rostrate or erostrate.

    1838, John Torrey, A Flora of North America
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    Characteristics of beak if present; differentiation is made between true beak (rostrum), an integral part of the conidium, and false beak (pseudorostrum) produced from the apical cell of the initially erostrate conidium.

    1992, J. Chełkowski, Alternaria: Biology, Plant Diseases, and Metabolites, page 56

    Leaflets glabrous (except for trichomes in domatia in nerve axils under leaflets); anthers all short-rostrate or erostrate.

    2008, Tracey Parker, Trees of Guatemala, page 408

    Bentham (1865) characterized the genus Phaseolus as having spirally coiled keel-petals, while the nearest genus Vigna as having erostrate or rostrate but not spirally coiled keel-petals.

    2012, K. Fujii, Bruchids and Legumes: Economics, Ecology and Coevolution

Origin

From e- + rostrate.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

orestrate
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APA

erostrate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/erostrate

MLA

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Chicago

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