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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
- black medick prostrate European herb with small yellow flowers and curved black pods; naturalized in North America
- brooklime plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers
- carpetweed annual prostrate mat-forming weed having whorled leaves and small greenish-white flowers; widespread throughout North America
- manroot tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato
- touch-me-not 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
- whitecup prostrate woody South American herb with white tubular flowers often tinged with blue or rose
- abronia umbellata prostrate herb having heads of deep pink to white flowers; found in coastal dunes from British Columbia to Baja California