anguifer (trisyl.), fera, ferum, adj. anguis-fero, serpent-bearing: caput, Ov. M. 4, 741: Gorgo, Prop. 2, 2, 8.

—Hence, subst.: Anguifer, feri, m. (as transl. of Ὀφιοῦχος), the serpent-bearer, the constellation Serpentarius or Ophiuchus, Col. 11, 2, 49; cf. anguitenens.