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Meaning of ROSTELLUM

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ros*tel"lum\, n.; pl. {Rostella}. [L. See {Rostel}.]
A small beaklike process or extension of some part; a small
rostrum; as, the rostellum of the stigma of violets, or of
the operculum of many mosses; the rostellum on the head of a
tapeworm.
 
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Biology Dictionary
 
 Definition: A beak-like upward extension of the stigma in orchids.
 

 

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