Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hooked; bent or made in the form of a hook; incurved. Equivalent formations are adunc and aduncal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Curved inwards; hooked.
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- adjective
curved inwards;hooked
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Examples
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- not essential; supplemental; superfluous v. - attract and hold to surface (minute particles of mixture or molecules of gas or liquid). adsorbate, aduncous, aduncate adj. - hook-shaped; crooked. aduncity, adust adj. - (sun) burnt or scorched; dried up by heat; gloomy, sad.
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