The corpus record — Latin

villus

villus · m

shaggy hair

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Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

villus — Lewis & Short

villus, i, m.Sanscr. urā, sheep; Gr. ei)=ros, wool; cf. vellus,

I shaggy hair, a tuft of hair; of beasts, Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 121; id. ib. 2, 63, 158; Verg. G. 3, 446; id. A. 5, 352; Ov. H. 6, 49; Mart. 14, 136, 2; Sid. Ep. 5, 17 med. al.—Of cotton, Plin. 11, 23, 27, § 77: tonsis mantelia villis, the nap of cloth, Verg. G. 4, 377; id. A. 1, 702.

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