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Webster 1913 Edition


Adunque

{

A-dunc′

,

A-dunque′

}
,
Adj.
(Zool.)
Hooked;
as, a parrot has an
adunc
bill
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Adunque

ADUNQUE

,
Adj.
Adunk'. Hooked. [Not used.]

Definition 2024


adunque

adunque

English

Adjective

adunque (comparative more adunque, superlative most adunque)

  1. Alternative form of adunc (hooked)
    • 1768, Edmund Gayton, Festivous notes on the history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote (page 114)
      her nose adunque like the over-grown beak of an eagle

Italian

Etymology

a- (toward) + dunque (so).

Conjunction

adunque

  1. (literary) Alternative form of dunque (so)