rost rif acture (rostrifaktur)

[Formed on the model of manufacture; The dexterity and a iduity they [orioles] display in their elaborate textile rost rif actures . Coues, Key to N. A. Birds, p. 403. Rost rifer a (ros-trif'e-rä), n . pl . [NL., neut. pl. of rost rifer us : see rost rifer ous .] A suborder or otherwise denominated group of gastropods having a contractile rostrum or snout, and supposed to be phytophagous. It includes most of the holostomatous shells and various others. The name is contrasted with Pro bos cid if era . rost rifer ous (ros-trif'e-rus), a. [ IMG:content-2491.png:[ocr errors] rostriform (ros'tri-fôrm), a. [= F.rost rif or me, rostroid (ros'troid), a. [L. rostrum, beak, + Gr. εἶδος, form.] Resembling a rostrum, beak, or snout; rostrate; rostriform. [Rare.] The head [of Macrotus , a genus of bats) has the same long rostroid appearance. H. Allen , Smiths. Misc. Coll., VII. 2 rostrolateral (ros-tro-lat'e-ral), a . [ trum , beak, + lat us ( later- ), side: see lateral .] 1. Lateral with reference to the rostrum: applied to a part of the shell of a cirriped: see rostrum, 3 (f).-2. Situated alongside the rostrum, as of the skull of a fish. Infraorbital chain with its anterior bones excluded from the orbit and functional as rostrolateral . Gill , Amer. Nat., 1888, p. 357. rostrular (ros'trö-lär), a . [ rostrul ( um ) + -ar3.] Pertaining to the rostrulum of fleas. rostrulate