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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
- man-of-the-earth tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato
- wild potato vine tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato
- beach morning glory a prostrate perennial of coastal sand dunes Florida to Texas
- shame plant prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft grey-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled
- spergularia rubra prostrate weedy herb with tiny pink flowers; widespread throughout Europe and Asia on sand dunes and heath and coastal cliffs; naturalized in eastern North America
- indian chickweed annual prostrate mat-forming weed having whorled leaves and small greenish-white flowers; widespread throughout North America
- genus erica large genus of low much-branched woody evergreens ranging from prostrate subshrubs to trees: true heaths