a. rare. [f. as prec. + -OUS: see -EOUS.] Of the nature or appearance of a snake; as in Anguineous Hyperbola, a name given by Newton to four of his curves of the second order.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Anguineous, of or belonging to a Snake.
1727–51. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Curve, That [hyperbola] which cuts its asymptote with contrary flexures, and is produced both ways into contrary legs, anguineous or snake-like.
1858. W. Clark, Van der Hoeven’s Zool., II. 285. Body elongate, anguineous.
