Bot. [mod.L., f. Gr. ἀγγούριον a water melon.] A genus of plants of the gourd family; also their fruit.
1611. Coryat, Crudities, 258. Anguria, the coldest fruite in taste that euer I did eate.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., s.v., The black seeded citrul or Anguria.
1869. Eng. Mech., 6 Aug., 446/3. Anguria…. The plant now so called is a kind of gourd.
