Dictionary Entry
rostrum
rostrum is a 7-letter English word with 12 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The beak or head of a ship. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The beak or head of a ship.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker.
- 4noun
Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds.
- 5noun
The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera.
- 6noun
The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of Littorina.
- 7noun
The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn.
- 8noun
Same as Rostellum.
- 9noun
The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic.
- 10noun
A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form.
- 11noun
beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils
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- 12noun
a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
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