Hooked, curved inward, or having the quality of being bent like a claw.
Directly from Latin 'aduncus' meaning 'hooked' or 'crooked.' This is the most direct English adoption of the Latin adjective.
This is the oldest form of the word family in English—it appears in 16th-century texts describing everything from falcon beaks to serpent fangs, capturing medieval fascination with predator anatomy.
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