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.