adunc

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Curved inward, hooked. usually
    — There was altogether something repulsive to sympathy about this old Shylock; and whether or not from any involuntary associations connected with his known profession (which certainly of itself might entitle him to succeed to the distinction of the monks, whom Voltaire called the modern vampyres), or more, as we believe, from his red hollow cheeks, adunc nose, and small appetite for butchers' meat, we wrote this man down in our imagination a Vampyre.

词形变化

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词源

Borrowed from Latin aduncus.
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