erostrate

English

Etymology

e- +‎ rostrate

Adjective

erostrate (not comparable)

  1. Not rostrate; lacking a beak.
    • 1838, John Torrey, A Flora of North America‎:
      Achenia rostrate or erostrate.
    • 1992, J. Chełkowski, Alternaria: Biology, Plant Diseases, and Metabolites, page 56:
      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.
    • 2008, Tracey Parker, Trees of Guatemala, page 408:
      Leaflets glabrous (except for trichomes in domatia in nerve axils under leaflets); anthers all short-rostrate or erostrate.
    • 2012, K. Fujii, Bruchids and Legumes: Economics, Ecology and Coevolution‎:
      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.

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