villose

[ vil-ohs ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Origin of villose¹

First recorded in 1720–30, villose is from the Latin word villōsus shaggy. See villus, -ose ¹

The maxill are villose: their edge exhibits a trace of being notched under the two great upper spines.

The leaves are inversely ovate, lanceolate, villose, and slightly toothed.

The substance is unusually thick in the spinose caterpillars of butterflies; and in the pupa of one, Uria Proteus, it is villose.

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