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rostrate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ros-trate
IPA
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate.

adj

Furnished or adorned with beaks.

Example Sentences

Etymology

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

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: *Hreh₃d-, rostratus

Inflected Forms

more rostrate (comparative) most rostrate (superlative)

Derived Forms

birostrate brevirostrate erostrate rostrated rostrately subrostrate

Synonyms

beaky

Questions

What does rostrate mean?
Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate.
Where does rostrate come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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