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aquilegia | aquilegia canadensis | aquilegia coerulia | aquilegia scopulorum calcarea | aquilegia vulgaris | aquiline | aquilon | aquinas | aquiparous | aquitaine | aquitania

aquiline

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CIDE DICTIONARY

aquilinea. [L. aquilinus, fr. aquila eagle: cf. F. aquilin. See Eagle. ].
  •  Belonging to or like an eagle.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose  [1913 Webster]
    "Terribly arched and aquiline his nose."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

aquiline, adj.
1 of or like an eagle.
2 (of a nose) curved like an eagle's beak.

Etymology
L aquilinus f. aquila eagle

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

aquiline

Angularity

N angularity, angularness, aduncity, angle, cusp, bend, fold, notch, fork, bifurcation, elbow, knee, knuckle, ankle, groin, crotch, crutch, crane, fluke, scythe, sickle, zigzag, kimbo, akimbo, corner, nook, recess, niche, oriel, coign, right angle, obliquity, angle of 45 degrees, miter, acute angle, obtuse angle, salient angle, reentering angle, spherical angle, angular measurement, angular elevation, angular distance, angular velocity, trigonometry, goniometry, altimetry, clinometer, graphometer, goniometer, theodolite, sextant, quadrant, dichotomy, triangle, trigon, wedge, rectangle, square, lozenge, diamond, rhomb, rhombus, quadrangle, quadrilateral, parallelogram, quadrature, polygon, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, oxygon, decagon, pyramid, cone, Platonic bodies, cube, rhomboid, tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron, prism, pyramid, parallelopiped, curb roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof, angular, bent, crooked, aduncous, uncinated, aquiline, jagged, serrated, falciform, falcated, furcated, forked, bifurcate, zigzag, furcular, hooked, dovetailed, knock kneed, crinkled, akimbo, kimbo, geniculated, oblique, fusiform, wedge-shaped, cuneiform, cuneate, multangular, oxygonal, triangular, trigonal, trilateral, quadrangular, quadrilateral, foursquare, rectangular, square, multilateral, polygonal, cubical, rhomboid, rhomboidal, pyramidal.


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