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How to use rostellum in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word rostellum? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
The rostellum is normally present, rarely absent, and is armed with two alternating rows of hooks of characteristic taenioid shape.
The rostellum ends in a holdfast by which the cell is fixed to the gut wall of its host.
The third stigma is sterile and has developed into the rostellum, a sticky structure that aids in pollination by attaching the pollen to insects.
The scolex exhibits a retractable rostellum with crowns of recurved thorn-like hooks and four cup-like suckers.
Examples from Classical Literature
I want to know whether anything beats in modification the rostellum of Catasetum.
Asa Gray's observations on the rostellum of Gymnadenia are very imperfect, yet worth looking at.
One has a rostellum without hooks, like the tni of the vegetable-feeders, the other has hooks like those of the carnivora.
So in other cases, but I have not completely traced that going to the rostellum.
I would give a good deal to know what the rostellum is, of which I have traced so many curious modifications.
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