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Definitions of: rostrum

Definition: The beak or head of a ship.

Definition: 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.

Definition: Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker.

Definition: Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds.

Definition: The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera.

Definition: The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of Littorina.

Definition: The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn.

Definition: Same as Rostellum.

Definition: The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic.

Definition: A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form.

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