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adjectivehaving a beak or beaklike snout or proboscis
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Definition that contains rostrate
- lie be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position
- prostrate get into a prostrate position, as in submission
- prostration the act of assuming a prostrate position
- brooklime plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers
- helxine soleirolia prostrate or creeping Corsican herb with moss-like small round short-stemmed leaves
- scleranthus small genus of Old World weedy prostrate annuals: knawel
- desert selaginella prostrate spikemoss; California
- quercus vaccinifolia a low spreading or prostrate shrub of southwestern United States with small acorns and leaves resembling those of the huckleberry
- nonesuch clover prostrate European herb with small yellow flowers and curved black pods; naturalized in North America
- calyptridium umbellatum pink clusters of densely packed flowers on prostrate stems resemble upturned pads of cats' feet; grow in coniferous forests of western North America