Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a rostellum.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a rostellum; diminutively rostrate or beaked.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a rostellum, or small beak; terminating in a beak.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
rostellum , or smallbeak ; terminating in a beak.
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Examples
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Moggridge figures a flower of _Ophrys insectifera_ in which the rostellate process was replaced by an anther. [
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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