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Rostrated :: Rostrated (a.) Furnished or adorned with beaks; as, rostrated galleys..

Prostrate :: Prostrate (v. t.) To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself..

Recurvirostral :: Recurvirostral (a.) Having the beak bent upwards.

Windfall :: Windfall (n.) Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind, etc..

Throw :: Throw (v. t.) To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist..

Indicate :: Indicate (v. t.) To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies; as, great prostration of strength indicates the use of stimulants..

Amphipoda :: Amphipoda (n. pl.) A numerous group of fourteen -- footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca..

Prostrate :: Prostrate (v. t.) To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants..

Cultirostral :: Cultirostral (a.) Having a bill shaped like the colter of a plow, or like a knife, as the heron, stork, etc..

Decumbent :: Decumbent (a.) Lying down; prostrate; recumbent.

Prostrated :: Prostrated (imp. & p. p.) of Prostrat.

Rostra :: Rostra (pl. ) of Rostru.

Grovel :: Grovel (adv.) To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate on the earth; to lie fiat on one's belly, expressive of abjectness; to crawl..

Flat :: Flat (superl.) Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed..

Prostrate :: Prostrate (a.) Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate..

Brevirostral :: Brevirostral (a.) Alt. of Brevirostrat.

Prostration :: Prostration (n.) The act of falling down, or of bowing in humility or adoration; primarily, the act of falling on the face, but usually applied to kneeling or bowing in reverence and worship..

Prostrate :: Prostrate (a.) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.

Fling :: Fling (v. t.) To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation..

Procumbent :: Procumbent (a.) Lying on the ground, but without putting forth roots; trailing; prostrate; as, a procumbent stem..

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