Word Meaning

Meaning of rostrum

- The beak or head of a ship.
- The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators.
- Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker.
- Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds.
- The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera.
- The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of Littorina.
- The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn.
- Same as Rostellum.
- The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic.
- A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form.

Crossword clue for rostrum

- A platform
- Chap leaves Roman to play guitar on speaker’s platform
- Conductor’s platform
- Dais
- Raised platform
- Rhinoceros trumpets, holding stage
- Some hero’s trumped up platform for speaker
- Speaker needs to use Prospero’s trumpet
- Speaker's platform
- Speaker’s platform
- Speaking platform