{ } a. [ Pref. bi- + rostrate. ] Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks. [ 1913 Webster ]

The capsule is bilocular and birostrated. Ed. Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. prostratus, p. p. of prosternere to prostrate; pro before, forward + sternere to spread out, throw down. See Stratum. ] 1. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lying at mercy, as a supplicant. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture. [ 1913 Webster ]

Prostrate fall
Before him reverent, and there confess
Humbly our faults. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Bot.) Trailing on the ground; procumbent. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Prostrated p. pr. & vb. n. Prostrating. ] 1. To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever. [ 1913 Webster ]