Thesaurus: aquiline
Belonging to or like an eagle.
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Definitions
- a. Belonging to or like an eagle.
- a. Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose
- adj. curved down like an eagle's beak
- 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.
- s. curved down like an eagle's beak