(adjective) : hirsūtus, a, um, primary form HIRSUS, a variation of hirtus
* Rough, shaggy, bristly, prickly, hirsute = δασύς.
* Lit. (class.; syn. hirtus, pilosus, villosus): quarum (animantium) aliae villis vestitae, aliae spinis hirsutae,Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 121; Col. 7, 2, 6: pectus Herculis,Prop. 4 (5), 9, 49. crura genaeque,Mart. 10, 65, 9: supercilium,Verg. E. 8, 34: et glacialis Hiems canos hirsuta capillos,Ov. M. 2, 30: barba,id. ib. 13, 766: capilli,id. H. 9, 63: juba (galeae),Prop. 4 (5), 10, 20. vellera (leonis) setis,Ov. F. 2, 339: castaneae,Verg. E. 7, 53; cf.: frondes,id. G. 3, 231: vepres,id. ib. 3, 444: rubi,Prop. 4 (5), 4, 28. folia hirsutiora,Plin. 22, 22, 33, § 75.—Poet., to designate the people of the olden time (when the hair of the head and beard was left untrimmed), like intonsus and incomptus, Sil. 13, 812; Mart. 9, 48, 2.—*
* Trop., rude, unpolished: sumpserit Annales: nihil est hirsutius illis,Ov. Tr. 2, 259.

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