About The Word Aquiline
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Aquiline
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What's The Definition Of Aquiline?
[adj] curved down like an eagle's beak
Synonyms | Synonyms for Aquiline: crooked | hooked Related Terms | Find terms related to Aquiline: altricial | anserine | anserous | aquiline-nosed | avian | avicular | beaked | beak-nosed | beak-shaped | billed | bill-like | bill-shaped | 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 | Roman-nosed | rostrate | rostriform | unciform | uncinate | unguiform See Also | Aquiline In Webster's Dictionary \Aq"ui*line\ (?; 277), a. [L. aquilinus, fr. aquila
eagle: cf. F. aquilin. See {Eagle}. ]
1. Belonging to or like an eagle.
2. Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; --
applied particularly to the nose
Terribly arched and aquiline his nose. --Cowper.
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