(adjective) : sanguĭnĕus, a, um, sanguis.
* Lit., of blood, consisting of blood, bloody, blood- (class.; a favorite word of the Aug. poets): imber, * Cic. Div. 2, 28, 60: guttae,Ov. M. 2, 360; 14, 408: dapes,Tib. 1, 5, 49: manus,Ov. M. 1, 143: lingua,id. ib. 3, 57: humus,id. H. 16, 334; cf. mater,id. M. 3, 125: hasta,Stat. Th. 8, 436: pulmo,Sen. Agam. 760; Plin. 11, 37, 72, § 188: caedes,Ov. M. 13, 85: rixae,Hor. C. 1, 27, 4: bellum,Val. Fl. 5, 308; 6, 134: crines,Stat. Th. 10, 173: leo,Val. Fl. 3, 588.
* Blood-thirsty: vir,i. e. Hannibal,Sil. 1, 40: Mavors,Verg. A. 12, 332: Mars,Ov. R. Am. 153.
* Transf., blood-colored, blood-red (poet. and in postAug. prose): jubae (anguium),Verg. A. 2, 207: cometae,id. ib. 10, 273: mora,id. E. 6, 22: Luna,Ov. Am. 2, 1, 23: sagulum,Sil. 4, 519: color vini,Plin. 14, 9, 11, § 80: sucus,id. 21, 16, 56, § 95: frutices,id. 16, 18, 30, § 74: virgae,Dig. 49, 9, 9: cristae,Col. 8, 2, 9: flores,id. 10, 242.