Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Anatomy At, near, or toward the head, especially the front of the head.
- adjective Of or relating to a rostrum.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A scale covering the end of the nose in reptiles; the rostral shield.
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling a rostrum.
- In zoology: Of or pertaining to a rostrum in any sense; rostellar; rostriform.
- Having a rostrum or beak of this or that kind; rostrate: usually in composition with a qualifying epithet: as, lamellirostral, longirostral, fissirostral, conirostral, cultrirostral, curvirostral, rectirostral, dentirostral, recurvirostral, pressirostral, tenuirostral, serratirostral, etc. See the compounds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective In the direction of the
rostrum . - adjective anatomy In the direction that a rostrum would have been located.
- adjective Serving as a rostrum.
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Examples
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They all however had beaks which were a special bone called a rostral at the front of their jaw that no other animal has ever had!
Archive 2009-03-01 Prehistoric Insanity 2009
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They all however had beaks which were a special bone called a rostral at the front of their jaw that no other animal has ever had!
Life's Time Capsule: The Ceratopsians Gallery Traumador 2009
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Fricke: They have a giant electroreceptor in their head, called the rostral organ.
Wired Top Stories Brandon Keim 2011
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Previous studies showed that an area of the brain called the rostral anterior cingulate cortex is activated more when you think about yourself than when you think about another person; this study showed that it is also more active when you think about yourself now as compared with imagining yourself 10 years from now.
Scientific American 2010
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Previous studies showed that an area of the brain called the rostral anterior cingulate cortex is activated more when you think about yourself than when you think about another person; this study showed that it is also more active when you think about yourself now as compared with imagining yourself 10 years from now.
Scientific American 2010
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According to a team of researchers in the U. S.a particular part of the brain called the rostral ante ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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Some other chameleon species sport a longer so-called rostral process with a flexible tip, though scientists aren't sure the function of such a movable tip.
Livescience.com 2009
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Some other chameleon species sport a longer so-called rostral process with a flexible tip, though scientists aren't sure the function of such a movable tip.
Livescience.com 2009
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According to a team of researchers in the U. S.a particular part of the brain called the rostral ante ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009
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Some other chameleon species sport a longer so-called rostral process with a flexible tip, though scientists aren't sure the function of such a movable tip.
Livescience.com 2009
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