Aquiline

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of an eagle.
  • adj. Curved or hooked like an eagle's beak: an aquiline nose.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of eagles.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Belonging to or like an eagle.
  • adj. Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose.
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. curved down like an eagle's beak
  • Equivalent
    crooked   
    Antonym
    pug-nosed    snub   
    Unknown
    hawk-nosed    beaked    hooked    roman   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    curving    hooked   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    hawklike    beaky    hawk-like    finely-cut    rhinoplasty    up-turned    hawkish    rubicund    slit-like    fleshless