Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
adjective
- (of the nose) shaped like an eagle’s beak; hooked.
- of or like the eagle.
adjective
- (of a nose) having the curved or hooked shape of an eagle’s beak
- of or resembling an eagle
“curved like an eagle’s beak,” 1640s, originally in English in reference to long, hooked noses, from Latin aquilinus “of or like an eagle,” from aquila “eagle,” of uncertain origin, usually explained as “the dark bird;” cf. aquilus “blackish, of the color of darkness.”