Aquiline

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
aquiline
    adj 1: curved down like an eagle's beak [syn: {aquiline},
           {hooked}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Aquiline \Aq"ui*line\ (?; 277), a. [L. aquilinus, fr. aquila
   eagle: cf. F. aquilin. See {Eagle}. ]
   1. Belonging to or like an eagle.
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   2. Curving; hooked; prominent, like the beak of an eagle; --
      applied particularly to the nose
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            Terribly arched and aquiline his nose. --Cowper.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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