Aquiline

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  • adjective. Relating to or having the characteristics of an eagle.
  • adjective. Curved or hooked like an eagle's beak.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to the eagle.
  • Resembling an eagle; having the characteristics of an eagle; especially, resembling an eagle's beak; curving; hooked; prominent.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Belonging to or like an eagle.
  • adjective. Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose.
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  • adjective. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of eagles.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. curved down like an eagle's beak
    • Word Usage
    "Thus an ornithologist might describe a colleague as having an aquiline nose, but would not use the word aquiline in reference to a bird of the eagle group."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    pug-nosed  snub  
    Equivalent
    crooked  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    aerie  beak-like  beaky  careworn  cherubic  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Roman-nosed  altricial  anserine  anserous  aquiline-nosed  
    unknown
    beaked  hawk-nosed  hooked  roman  
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