tonsilis, e, adj. tondeo, that may be shorn, cut, or clipped. Lit.: villus, Plin. 8, 50, 76, § 203: facilitas piceae, id. 16, 10, 18, § 40.

— Transf., for tonsus, shorn, clipped, cut, lopped: tapetes, Matius ap. Gell. 20, 9, 3: nemora, Plin. 12, 2, 6, § 13; cf. buxetum, Mart. 3, 58, 3.