hirsūtus, a, um, adj. [primary form HIRSUS, a variation of hirtus], rough, shaggy, bristly, prickly, hirsute = δασύς.
I 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.—*
II Trop., rude , unpolished : sumpserit Annales: nihil est hirsutius illis, Ov. Tr. 2, 259.