eyelashes is a form of:
Rostrum
Same as: rostellumnoun — Plural: Rostra, Rostrums
- 1.
- (a platform for public speaking, beak of a ship raised platform, pulpit) វេទិកា
- 2.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) វេទិកា
ENGLISH MEANING
noun — Plural: Rostra, Rostrums
- 1.
- The beak or head of a ship.
- 2.
- 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.
- 3.
- Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker.
- 4.
- Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds.
- 5.
- The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera.
- 6.
- The snout of a gastropod mollusk.
- 7.
- The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn.
- 8.
- The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic.
- 9.
- A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form.