cultirostral

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin culter (“knife”) + rōstrum (“beak”).

Adjective edit

cultirostral (comparative more cultirostral, superlative most cultirostral)

(zoology, archaic) Having a bill shaped like the colter of a plough, or like a knife, as in the heron, stork, etc.

Related terms edit

rostral

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cultirostral”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)