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‖ piloˈsella Obs.
[mod. or med.L., dim. of pilōsa, fem. of pilōsus hairy.]
A name given by the herbalists to two Composite plants with pilose or woolly leaves, viz. Great Pilosella, the Mouse-ear Hawkweed, Hieracium Pilosella, and Small Pilosella, Gnaphalium dioicum.
1578Lyte Dodoens i. lx. 87 The great is now called in Latine Pilosella maior: in English also Great Pilosella. 1640Bp. Hall Chr. Moder. ii. xvi. 170 It is not for Christians to be like unto Thistles, or Teazels, which a man cannot touch without pricking his fingers; but rather to Pitosella [sic], or Mouse-eare,..which is soft and silken. |