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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
- scammonyroot tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato
- action 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
- baby tears prostrate or creeping Corsican herb with moss-like small round short-stemmed leaves
- manroot tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato
- huckleberry oak a low spreading or prostrate shrub of southwestern United States with small acorns and leaves resembling those of the huckleberry
- pussy-paw pink clusters of densely packed flowers on prostrate stems resemble upturned pads of cats' feet; grow in coniferous forests of western North America
- genus clianthus genus of semi-prostrate Australasian shrubs or vines