Definitions for rostellum

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rostellum ros·tel·lum

Spelling: [ro-stel-uh m]

IPA: /rɒˈstɛl əm/

Rostellum is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 446 anagrams from letters in rostellum (ellmorstu).

Definitions for rostellum

noun

1. Biology. any small, beaklike process.
2. Botany. a beaklike modification of the stigma in many orchids.
3. Zoology. a projecting part of the scolex in certain tapeworms. a part of the mouth in many insects, designed for sucking.

Origin of rostellum

1750-60; New Latin; Latin: little beak, snout, diminutive of rōstrum snout (see rostrum); for formation, see castellum

Examples for rostellum

I would give a good deal to know what the rostellum is, of which I have traced so many curious modifications.

So in other cases, but I have not completely traced (only seen) that going to the rostellum.

Anthera fere immersa, rostellum integrum ut in omnibus glandula orbotis Pollinia 8.

Asa Gray's observations on the rostellum of Gymnadenia are very imperfect, yet worth looking at.

I want to know whether anything beats in modification the rostellum of Catasetum.

One has a rostellum without hooks, like the tni of the vegetable-feeders, the other has hooks like those of the carnivora.