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"rostrum" from which speakers orate, derived from Jesus having spoken to his disciples from the bow of a boat drawn up on the shore.
AHD lists, in its defintions of rostrum,:
2b. The speaker's platform in an ancient Roman forum, which was decorated with the prows of captured enemy ships.
Birostrate sounds to me like it should have something to do with ball-point pens.
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