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erostrate

erostrate adjective: not rostrate; lacking a beak.

Adjective

erostrate (not comparable)

  1. Not rostrate; lacking a beak.
    • Achenia rostrate or erostrate.1838, John Torrey, A Flora of North America
    • 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

Examples of erostrate in a sentence

  • 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:
  • 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:

Origin of erostrate

From e- + rostrate.

Questions about erostrate

What does erostrate mean?
Erostrate means not rostrate; lacking a beak.
How do you use erostrate in a sentence?
Leaflets glabrous (except for trichomes in domatia in nerve axils under leaflets); anthers all short-rostrate or erostrate.
What part of speech is erostrate?
Erostrate is an adjective.

Words near erostrate in the dictionary

  1. erosive
  2. erosively
  3. erosiveness
  4. erosivities
  5. erosivity
  6. erostrate
  7. erotema
  8. erotemas
  9. erotemata
  10. erotematic
  11. erotematic method

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