a. Bot. and Ent. [ad. L. villōs-us hairy, rough, f. villus VILLUS. Cf. It. villoso, velloso, Sp., Pg. velloso.] Sp., Pg. velloso.] = VILLOUS a.
a. Bot. 1727. Bailey (vol. II.), Villose, hairy.
1753. Chambers’ Cycl., Suppl. s.v. Leaf, Villose Leaf. See Pilose Leaf, supra.
1812. New Bot. Gard., I. 29. The involucre remote and villose.
1844. Florist’s Jrnl. (1846), V. 26. The various parts of plants, when clothed or furnished with hairs, are described as being downy, pilose, villose, tomentose.
1887. W. Phillips, Brit. Discomycetes, 185. Margin fimbriate, villose-white.
b. Ent. 1819. Samouelle, Entomol. Compend., 156. Dryp[ta] emarginata. Blue, punctate, villose.
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., IV. 39. The substance is unusually thick in the spinose caterpillars of butterflies; and in the pupa of one … it is villose.
1847. Hardy, in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, II. 235. Abdomen and elytra fulvo-pubescent, the last with a villose cinereous angulated band.
1861. Hagen, Synop. Neuroptera N. Amer., 153. Libellula julia.… Fuscous, villose.
