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An Aquiline nose is a human nose

Human nose

The visible part of the human nose is the protruding part of the face that bears the nostrils. The shape of the nose is determined by the ethmoid bone and the nasal septum, which consists mostly of cartilage and which separates the nostrils...

 with a prominent bridge, giving it the appearance of being curved or slightly bent. The word aquiline comes from the Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...

 word aquilinus ("eagle-like"), a reference to the curved beak

Beak

The beak, bill or rostrum is an external anatomical structure of birds which is used for eating and for grooming, manipulating objects, killing prey, fighting, probing for food, courtship and feeding young...

 of an eagle

Eagle

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Occurrences

In Crania Americana Samuel George Morton

Samuel George Morton

Samuel George Morton was an American physician and natural scientist. Morton, reared a Quaker but became Episcopalian in midlife, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1820. After earning an advanced degree from Edinburgh University in...

 (1799-1851) had attempted to divide humankind primarily into four races, each distinguished by certain physical characteristics. He stated that this type of nose is primarily found among Mediterraneans

Mediterranean race

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 and in the Middle East

Middle East

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. Of Native Americans

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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, he wrote that they were "marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard. The eyes are black and deep set, the brow low, the cheekbones high, the nose large and aquiline, the mouth large, and the lips tumid and compressed".

Other ethnic groups said to have aquiline noses were the Kazakhs

Kazakhs

The Kazakhs are a Turkic people of the northern parts of Central Asia ....

 (Central Asia), the Shagia

Shagia

The Shaigiya are one of the three dominant tribes in Northern Sudan, the others being the Ja'Alin and Danagla. The leaders of these three tribes share the key positions in the Sudanese government of national unity .-People:...

 (Africa), the Abipones (South America), and the Kabbabish

Kabbabish

Kabbabish , a tribe of African nomads of Semitic origin. It is perhaps the largest "Arab" tribe in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and its many clans are scattered over the country extending SW from the province of Dongola to the confines of Darfur...

(Africa).