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Definition of Anguine
1. Adjective. Of or related to or resembling a snake.
Definition of Anguine
1. a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a snake or serpent.
Definition of Anguine
1. Adjective. Pertaining to snakes or serpents ¹
2. Adjective. Snakelike. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anguine
1. resembling a snake [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anguine
Literary usage of Anguine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1856)
"Many authors are of opinion that the wild cucumber is identical with the plant
known among us as the " anguine," and by some persons as the "erratic"31 ..."
2. The Household Narrative of Current Events by Charles Dickens (1855)
"A »anguine estimate of revenue convicts with conditional pardons are prohibited
all ! for 1845 places it at ..."
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