a. [a. L. anguīn-us pertaining to a snake, f. anguis snake: see -INE.] Of or resembling a snake or serpent.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 241. Four sorts of cucurbites, the greater, the lesser … or the anguine.
1847. Carpenter, Zool., § 501. The Anguine Lizard, also a native of South Africa.
1867. Le Fanu, Tenants of Malory, I. xi. 107–8. Her beautiful eyebrow wore that anguine curve which is the only approach to a scowl which painters accord to angels.
