noun
anguĭgĕna
Meaning
- engendered of a snake
anguĭgĕna, ae, m. anguis-gigno,
I. engendered of a snake or dragon, an epithet of the Thebans, who sprang from dragons' teeth, Ov. M. 3, 531; cf.:
draconigena urbs, i. e. Thebes, id. F. 3, 865.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
anguigena ae, m
anguis + GEN-, engendered of a serpent, i. e. sprung from dragons' teeth, O.