Definitions for rostrum
  • Rostrum (n.) - The beak or head of a ship.
  • Rostrum (n.) - The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators.
  • Rostrum (n.) - Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker.
  • Rostrum (n.) - Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds.
  • Rostrum (n.) - The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera.
  • Rostrum (n.) - The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of Littorina.
  • Rostrum (n.) - The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn.
  • Rostrum (n.) - Same as Rostellum.
  • Rostrum (n.) - The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic.
  • Rostrum (n.) - A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form.
  • Rostrums (pl. ) - of Rostrum
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