Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or resembling a snake; snake-like: as, “the anguine or snake-like reptiles,” Owen, Comp. Anat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a snake or serpent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to
snakes orserpents - adjective
Snakelike .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or related to or resembling a snake
Etymologies
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Examples
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There are also: serpentine, colubrine (if it's a cobra-like snake, can't apply to a constricter, say, or a sidewinder ...), anguine.
Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2005
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J anguine ae patriae oppugna - XX, 4. uictoriae licentiam
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Ilium iam uelim conuenire, qui initiari nos dicit aut credit de caede infantis et/anguine, Aur.
Panegyrici veteres qvos ex codice ms. librisqve collatis recensvit ae notis integris iisqve partim ad hve ineditis Christiani Gottlibii Schwarzii et excerptis aliorvm additis etiam svis instrvxit et illvstravit Wolfgangvs Iaegervs .. Schwarz, Christian Gottlieb, 1675-1751 1779
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Non his juvenilis orta parentlbus Infccit a qiwr, f anguine GallicOr.
The orange-girl at Foote's to Sally Harris: [o]r The town to the country Pomona. : An heroic epistle 1773
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Nec fuit indignum fuperis, bis {anguine noftro Emathiam et latos Haemi pinguefcere campos Scilicet!
P. Virgilii Maronis opera: emendabat et notulis illustr. G. Wakefield Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro 1796
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Nor doubted long j for now her eyes beheld A dying perfoB fpurn the (anguine field* 105
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