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US
/ˈɹɑstɹəm/
]
[ UK /ɹˈɒstɹəm/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɒstɹəm/ ]
NOUN
- a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
- beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils
How To Use rostrum In A Sentence
- Except that in Latin a ship's prow was called a rostrum and the plural of rostrum was rostra so they called the speaking platform rostra.
- Using its front legs the giant water bug gripped the turtle inserting its syringe-like rostrum into the prey's neck in order to feed.
- Putting his characters on the rostrum he sends up everything from the contextual pieties of the new historicists to the gender fixations of the post-feminists.
- Gerhardt touched Veronica's hand and nodded towards the rostrum, his eyes narrowed. DARE CALL IT TREASON
- Upon entering the hall from the gallery of the rotunda, the viewer faced the elevated rostrum of the speaker at the south end, located under an arch that featured coffers filled with plaster rosettes.
- The rostrum in homolids is usually bifid, while that of P. gorrelli is characterized by two lateral rostral spines and a downturned, central rostral spine.
- At the very far end of the rostrum one could just discern a tribunal of sapient figures seated around a table.
- Signior Lampone and Anne Lucas climbed up on to the rostrum, and the applause swelled. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
- The rostrum is relatively short and blunt, with rounded lateral edges.
- Species identification was based on the morphologies of the rostrum and the 5th pleura.
