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  1. Same as aduncous. Parrots have an adunque Bill. Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 238. The Nose … if Aquiline or Adunc. Evelyn, Numismata, p. 297. (N. E. D.)

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  1. Formerly adunque, as if F.; from Latin aduncus, hooked: see aduncous.
 

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