noun
definition
A scale in reptiles on the median plate of the tip of the snout that borders the mouth opening.
adjective
definition
Relating to the rostrum.
definition
Serving as a rostrum.
example
rostral column
Examples of rostral in a Sentence
The keel is pushed back to the distal third of the sternum, whilst the original anterior margin of the keel is correspondingly elongated,and the furcula fused with the rostral portion.
The dorsal crest is continued round both extremities, becoming expanded to form the rostral fin in front and the caudal fin behind.
Rarely the eyes are the only affected body part, and in those cases the discharge is thought to involve the rostral occipital cortex.
The central and umbonal muscles effect the direct opening and closing of the shell, the laterals enable the valves to move forward and backward on each other, and the transmedians allow the similar extremities (the rostral) of the valves to turn from each other to the right or the left on an axis subcentrically situated, that is, the medio-transverse region of the dorsal valve.
In these the furcal branches are linear or rudimentary, the shell is without rostral sinus, and, besides distinguishing characters of the second 2ntennae, they have always a branchial plate well developed on the first maxillae, which is inconstant in the other tribe.
Almost always the shell has a rostral sinus.