rostr-, rostro-, rostri- +
(Latin: beak)
						Animals with a narrow beak or snout.					
									
						birostrate, birostrated					
					
						Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks.					
									
						brevirostral (adjective)					
					
						Short-billed; having a short beak.					
									
						brevirostrate (adjective)					
					
						A reference to a bird that has a short bill or beak.					
									
						conirostres					
					
						A tribe of perching birds, including those which have a strong conical (circular base tapering to a point) bill or beak; such as, the finches.					
									
						cultrirostral					
					
						Having a bill shaped like a knife or coulter, as certain grallatorial birds (the heron, stork, etc.).					
									
						dentirostral, dentirostrate					
					
						Having a tooth-like projection on the cutting edge of the bill, or beak; such as, falcons and shrikes.					
									
						erostrate					
					
						Without a beak.					
									
						fissirostral					
					
						1. Having a broad, deeply cleft beak, or bill; such as, swallows and goatsuckers.
2. With reference to a bird's beak, deeply cleft.
									2. With reference to a bird's beak, deeply cleft.
						fissirostres					
					
						A group of birds having the bill, or beak, with a deep cleft.					
									
						lamellirostral, lamellirostrate					
					
						Having a beak equipped with thin plates or lamellae for straining water and mud from food, as the ducks, geese, swans, and flamingos.					
									
						lamellirostres					
					
						A group of birds embracing the Anseres and flamingoes, in which the bill is lamellate.
									Anseres are a Linnaean order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet; such as, the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. Included in this order are the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc.
						levirostres					
					
						A group of birds, including the hornbills, kingfishers, and related forms.					
									
						longiroster, longirostral					
					
						1. Having a long beak; one of the Longirostres, a family of wading birds distinguished by the length and tenuity [thinness, slenderness] of the bill.
2. A group of birds characterized by having long slender bills, as the sandpipers, curlews, and ibises.
									2. A group of birds characterized by having long slender bills, as the sandpipers, curlews, and ibises.
						loxia curvirostra					
					
						A bird; such as, a finch with a bill whose tips cross when closed.					
									
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