A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

rostratus,-a,-um (adj.A): rostrate, beaked, provided with a beak; “terminating gradually in a hard, long, straight point; as the pod of Radish” [Raphanus] (Lindley); “with a beak narrowed into a slender tip or point” (Jackson); see ‘beaked;’ cf. apiculatus,-a,-um (adj.A); see ‘horned,’ cornutus,-a,-um (adj.A): Corylus cornuta, (Horned Hazelnut), Beaked Hazelnut, the husk surrounding the fruit a tubular extension resembling a horn or beak;

- stigma vertice umbonatum v. rostratum (B&H), the stigma at the apex umbonate or rostrate [i.e. beaked].

- achenia capitata v. spicata, stylo brevi nunc brevissimo apiculata, v. longiore rostrata (B&H), achenes capitate or spicate, [i.e. organized into heads or spikes], with the style short, sometimes very short, apiculate or more longly rostrate.

- achenia capitata, stylo persistente rostrata (B&H), the achenes capitate, beaked with the persistent style.

- putamen superne rostratum, dorso tuberculatum (B&H), the putamen beaked above, tuberculate on the back.

- siliqua obovata, polysperma, valvis medio turgidis margine planis apice rostratis (B&H), the silique obovate, with many seeds, in the middle with inflated valves, flat on the margine, beaked at the apex.

- carpellis stylo recto concolori rostratis (DeCandolle), with the carpels rostrate with a straight style of the same color.

- galea conica elongata inclinata vel recta antice abrupte rostrata (DeCandolle), with the galea conic, elongate, bent down or straight, antically abruptly rostrate.

rostrato-cornutus,-a,-um (adj.A): beaked-horned, the horns forming a beak or rostrum and also curved-horned (i.e. curved-conic);

- olim generice distinguebatur acheniis rostrato-cornutis (B&H), at one time it was generically distinguished by the rostrate-horned achenes.

ventricoso-rostratus,-a,-um (adj.A): (in fungi) “ventricose with a tip or beak or narrowed prolongation; same as ‘lageniform,’ ‘sicyoid,’ and ‘cucurbitiform,’ unless one chooses to make distinctions on the length of the neck or prolongation” (S&D), cf. utriform.

NOTE: cf. abrupte (adv.) mucronatus, abruptly mucronate, i.e. ending abruptly in a short point:

- [Aconitum rostratum] ) panicula laxiuscnla, galea conica antice abrupte mucronata (DeCandolle), with the panicle somewhat lax, with the galea conic, antically abruptly mucronate.