English

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.