имя существительное [множественное число] rostra, rostrums 1) [историческое] ростра (трибуна на форуме Древнего Рима, украшенная носами кораблей, захваченных у неприятеля) 2) трибуна; кафедра Например: from a rostrum — с кафедры on a rostrum — на кафедре to get up on rostrum, to mount the rostrum — подниматься на кафедру Синоним(ы): platform, stage, stand, pulpit 3) нос корабля 4) [зоология] а) клюв Синоним(ы): beak б) хоботок (у насекомых)
noun (plural rostra or rostrums) Etymology: Latin, beak, ship's beak, from rodere to gnaw — more at rodent 1. [Latin Rostra, plural, a platform for speakers in the Roman Forum decorated with the beaks of captured ships, from plural of rostrum] a. an ancient Roman platform for public orators b. a stage for public speaking c. a raised platform on a stage 2. the curved end of a ship's prow; especially the beak of a war galley 3. a bodily part or process suggesting a bird's bill: as a. the beak, snout, or proboscis of any of various insects or arachnids b. the often spinelike anterior median prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean (as a crayfish or lobster)