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aquilegia |
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aquilegia vulgaris |
Aquiline
| aquilon
| aquinas
| aquiparous
| aquitaine
| aquitania
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Aquiline
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective Aquiline has 1 sense
- aquiline(s = adj.all) hooked - curved down like an eagle's beak; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
Aquiline, a. [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.
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, unguiformROGET 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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