ăd-uncus, a, um, adj.,
bent in the manner of a hook , hooked : nasus, a hooked or aquiline nose , * Ter. Heaut. 1062 (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.