(adj.adv.) : ăd-uncus, a, um, adj.
* Bent in the manner of a hook, hooked: nasus, a hooked or aquiline nose, * Ter. Heaut. 5, 5, 18 (on the contr. reduncus nasus, a snub or turned-up nose): serrula adunca ex omni parte dentium et tortuosa, Cic. Clu. 48: corpuscula curvata et quasi adunca,id. N. D. 1, 24: ungues,id. Tusc. 2, 10: baculum aduncum tenens, quem lituum appellaverunt,Liv. 1, 18: aliis cornua adunca, aliis redunca,Plin. 11, 37, 45, § 125.—Poet.: magni praepes adunca Jovis,i. e. the eagle,Ov. F. 6, 196.—Comp., sup., and adv. not used.

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