‖ Anguria Bot.
(æŋˈgjʊərɪə)
[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 ever 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. |