[ US /ˈɹɑstɹəm/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɒstɹəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
  2. beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils
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How To Use rostrum In A Sentence

  • There were drinks and chatting and the two Ambassadors mounted a rostrum to give their speeches.
  • He too pronounces ex cathedra upon the characters of his contemporaries; and though he scruples not to deal out praise, even lavishly, to the lowest reptile in Grubstreet who will either flatter him in private, or mount the public rostrum as his panegyrist, he damns all the other writers of the age, with the utmost insolence and rancour — The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
  • This trilogy is interesting technically, as it shows a virtuosity of rostrum technique, combined with stylised and painstaking animation drawing.
  • Hours later, he repeated the remark even more confidently on the victory rostrum.
  • Other delphinids possess a melon, but their rostrum is short and the bulging forehead merely gives the head a squared-off appearance.
  • As they reached the steps, a squad of militiamen escorted them to the big stone rostrum near the fire. A TIME OF WAR
  • Roasted, pulverised and dissolved in wine, the lobster's rostrum is served as a medicine for a variety of urinary diseases, as well as for removal of kidney stones.
  • The rostrum in rorquals is long and tapers to a point (though it is comparatively broad in blue whales) and, in contrast to other mysticetes, a stout finger-like extension of the maxillary bone extends posteriorly, overlapping the nasals and abutting the supraoccipital (the shield-like plate that forms the rear margin of the skull). Archive 2006-10-01
  • The cingulate sulcus begins below the rostrum of the corpus callosum and arches in front of the genu of the corpus callosum, about a finger's breadth distant from it.
  • Modern monotremes lack teeth as adults; sutures are hard to see; the rostrum is elongate, beak-like, and covered by a leathery sheath; and lacrimal bones are absent.
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