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Aquiline Beak Word Relating Eagles Curving Eagle's Surviving

word aquiline
definition (1) Relating to eagles. (2) Curving like an eagle's beak.
eg_sentence The surviving busts of noble Romans show that many of the men had strong aquiline noses.
explanation Aquiline, from the Latin word meaning “eagle,” is most often used to describe a nose that has a broad curve and is slightly hooked, like a beak. The aquiline figure on the U.S. seal brandishes the arrows of war and the olive branch of peace. The word for eagle itself, Aquila, has been given to a constellation in the northern hemisphere.
IPA aquiline*

Tags: mwvb::unit:12, mwvb::unit:12:word, mwvb::word, mwvb::word-cloze, mwvb::word-reverse, obsidian_to_anki

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