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[syn: aquiline, hooked]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Aquiline \Aq"ui*line\ (?; 277), a. [L. aquilinus, fr. aquila
eagle: cf. F. aquilin. See Eagle. ]
1. Belonging to or like an eagle.
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2. Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; --
applied particularly to the nose
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Terribly arched and aquiline his nose. --Cowper.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
aquiline
adj 1: curved down like an eagle's beak [syn: aquiline,
hooked]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "aquiline":
Roman-nosed, altricial, anserine, anserous, aquiline-nosed, avian,
avicular, beak-nosed, beak-shaped, beaked, bill-like, bill-shaped,
billed, birdlike, birdy, clawlike, columbine, crookbilled, crooked,
crooknosed, dovelike, down-curving, goosy, hamate, hamiform,
hamulate, hawklike, hooked, hooklike, nesting, nidicolous,
nidificant, oscine, parrot-nosed, passerine, psittacine, rasorial,
rhamphoid, rostrate, rostriform, unciform, uncinate, unguiform