单词 | rostrate |
释义 | rostrateadj.ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bony support for limbs > shoulder-girdle > [noun] > shoulder bone > coracoid process rostral bonea1400 rostral?a1425 rostrate bonec1475 coracoid process1741 coracoid1828 c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 29v (MED) The bony part of eiþir schuldre is compouned of two hole bonys & of half a boon and..þe ij schuldris ben fyue bonys, þat is to seie, þe two spawde bonys, þe canel boon, and þe two rostrat bonys. 2. Chiefly Ancient History. Of a crown: decorated with representations of the beakheads of esp. classical Greek or Roman warships, and presented for a naval victory; (also) provided with such a crown. Also allusively in poetic use. Cf. rostral crown n. at rostral adj. and n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > regalia > [adjective] > relating to a crown or coronation > (wearing) types of crown rostrate1601 archal1602 turreted1610 mure-crowned1682 turrited1759 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. iv. vi. 456 Forasmuch as we are light vpon the mention of Naual or Rostrate coronets, this would be noted [etc.]. 1674 J. Evelyn Navigation & Commerce 36 Their Rostrate-Crowns; and that pretty Insolence by Act of Senate allow'd to C. Duillius. 1752 Epist. to Hon. A. Dobbs 55 With new Pomp his rostrate Pile adorn! 1783 tr. Virgil Aeneid viii. 99 in New Transl. Virgil's Eclogues Agrippa here, and type of high renown, The God had given Rostrate a naval crown. 1839 C. Richardson New Dict. Eng. Lang. II. 684/2 A rostral or rostrate coronet,—a coronet given for a naval exploit or victory. ?1864 J. W. de Peyster in C. L. Lewis David Glasgow Farragut (1980) xxiv. 296 To Farragut all honor! to him the rostrate crown, Who from her place of strength and pride the Rebel flag tore down. 1996 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 100 429/1 The type of the rostrate temple has long been recognized by historians of Roman architecture. 3. a. Botany. Terminating in a rostrum (rostrum n. 6). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > having a beak-like part rostrated1753 rostrate1799 beaked1830 1799 J. Hull Brit. Flora i. 154 Fruit 5-grained, rostrate, beaks spiral, bearded inwards. 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia Rostrate Fruit, in botany. A beaked fruit. Having a process resembling the beak of a bird: as in geranium, scandix, pecten. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 61 The apex..rostrate, and elongated in various ways beyond the insertion of the filament. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 13 Nuphar luteum... Berry ovoid rostrate. 1939 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 26 303 The corolla is greenish-yellow, and the corona segments..overhang the rostrate stigma. 1975 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 62 135 Mature fruits..inequilaterally obovoid, laterally flattened.., rostrate at apex. 1995 Brittonia 47 268 Surface pubescent to glabrous, the stipe 5–23 mm long, the apex rostrate or umbonate. b. Zoology. Having, or shaped like, a rostrum (rostrum n. 5). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having a snout > of the beak > beak-like rostriform1775 rostrate1826 rostroid1864 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 307 Rostrate.., when the anterior part of the head is elongated and attenuated into a cylindrical or many-sided rostrum or beak. 1848 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 305 Body ovate-oblong, narrowed and rostrate in front. 1884 Geol. Mag. 560 In other forms, the anterior extremity becomes nasute or rostrate. 1961 J. Stubblefield Davies's Introd. Palaeontol. (ed. 3) i. 28 Stringocephalus burtini of the Middle Devonian is a large shell, nearly circular but for its straight hinge-line and high and pointed (rostrate) ventral umbo. 1975 Trans. Amer. Microsc. Soc. 94 224 Order Rhynchodida... Aberrant, small, rostrate forms, with sucking tentacle and toxicysts. 2004 Jrnl. Paleontol. 78 528 The new subfamily Telamnocarcininae is erected to include the most primitive known dorippids, which possess a rostrate carapace. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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