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erostrate en · ADJ

Etymology

From e- + rostrate.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not rostrate; lacking a beak.
    • Achenia rostrate or erostrate. 1838, John Torrey, A Flora of North America:
    • Bentham (1865) characterized the genus Phaseolus as having spirally coiled keel-petals, while the nearest genus Vigna as having erostrate or rostrate but not spirally coiled keel-petals. 2012, K. Fujii, Bruchids and Legumes: Economics, Ecology and Coevolution:
    • Characteristics of beak if present; differentiation is made between true beak (rostrum), an integral part of the conidium, and false beak (pseudorostrum) produced from the apical cell of the initially erostrate conidium. 1992, J. Chełkowski, Alternaria: Biology, Plant Diseases, and Metabolites, page 56:
    • Leaflets glabrous (except for trichomes in domatia in nerve axils under leaflets); anthers all short-rostrate or erostrate. 2008, Tracey Parker, Trees of Guatemala, page 408: