Dear WW: I have read that the "rostrum" from which speakers orate, derived from
Jesus having spoken to his disciples from the bow of a boat drawn up on the shore.
Some boats have bow and stern identically pointed, or instance the New England
codfish dory. They could be described as "birostrate". Then there is the guy whose
beak looks so much like his bottom his bowels don't know which way to run. Would
you say he was "birotrate"?