- rostrocarinate
- ros·tro·carinate
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rostrocarinate
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rostrocarinate — I. |rä(ˌ)strō+ adjective Etymology: rostr + carinate : of, relating to, or constituting a chipped flint artifact shaped somewhat like an eagle s beak and found in eastern England II. noun ( s) : a rostrocarinate artifact * * * /ros troh kar euh… … Useful english dictionary
rostrocarinate — /ros troh kar euh nayt , nit/, n. a chipped flint with a beaklike shape found in the late Tertiary sediments of Suffolk, England, once thought to have been worked by humans but now known to have been shaped by natural nonhuman agencies. [1950 55; … Universalium
