Except that in Latin a ship's prow was called a rostrum and the plural of rostrum was rostra so they called the speaking platform rostra.
His eyes ranged over the audience before he mounted the rostrum.
Yes, say the liberals, that is the image of "the smiling Brother", Essam el-Eriani, a ubiquitous spokesman who is a model of decorum on the rostrum.
Merlin, a two-year-old bottlenose, USES his rostrum (that's his elongated beak) to operate the touchscreen, learning to associates symbols with objects.
The species takes its name from the shape of its rostrum, where the pectoral fins split into two lobes separated by a center crease—creating a feature rather like a bovine nose.
Four candidates--head of the village committee Ye Sixue, accountant Liu Gangkui, head of the village women's federation He Chengmei and village primary school headmaster Lei Mingheng came to the rostrum one by one to make a brief speech.
只是在拉丁语中，船首被称作“rostrum”，而且它的复数形式是“rostra”，所以他们将讲台叫做“rostra”。
