Rostrate vs Prostrate - What's the difference?
rostrate | prostrate |
Having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate.
Furnished or adorned with beaks.
Lying flat, facedown.
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* 1945 , :
Emotionally devastated.
Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
(botany) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
(senseid)(Often reflexive) To lie flat or facedown.
To throw oneself down in submission (also figuratively).
To cause to lie down, to flatten; (figuratively) to overcome or overpower.
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As adjectives the difference between rostrate and prostrate
is that rostrate is having a process resembling the beak of a bird; beaked; rostellate while prostrate is lying flat, facedown.As a verb prostrate is
(to lie flat or facedown)(Often reflexive) To lie flat or facedown.rostrate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a rostrate pillar
Synonyms
* rostrated (Webster 1913) ----prostrate
English
Adjective
(-)- Prostrate fall / Before him reverent, and there confess / Humbly our faults.
- Finally almost the whole world was combined against the evil-doers, who are now prostrate before us.
- I told him you was prostrate with grief.'' — Mammy to Scarlett, ''Gone With the Wind .
- He was prostrate from the extreme heat.