Meaning of AQUILINE
| Pronunciation: | | 'akwu`lIn
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| | Definition: | | [adj] curved down like an eagle's beak |
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| | Synonyms: | | crooked, hooked |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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