Erostrate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Erostrate is an adjective meaning Not rostrate; lacking a beak.
Meaning
Not rostrate; lacking a beak.
Example Sentences
Achenia rostrate or erostrate.
Leaflets glabrous (except for trichomes in domatia in nerve axils under leaflets); anthers all short-rostrate or erostrate.
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.
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unbeaked, inoperculate, unoperculate, unornithological, edentalous, uncrested.
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