| Rostrum: English to English |
| Rostrum (n.) A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form. |
| Rostrum (n.) Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds. |
| Rostrum (n.) Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker. |
| Rostrum (n.) Same as Rostellum. |
| Rostrum (n.) The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn. |
| Rostrum (n.) The beak or head of a ship. |
| Rostrum (n.) The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera. |
| Rostrum (n.) 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 i |
| Rostrum (n.) The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic. |
| Rostrum (n.) The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of Littorina. |