I.having hair, hairy (cf. barbatus): “adulescens bene capillatus,” with a fine head of hair, Cic. Agr. 2, 22, 58; Suet. Vesp. 23: “capillatior quam ante,” Cic. Agr. 2, 5, 13.— As a designation of a primitive age (since the hair was not then shorn; v. barba and barbatus): (vinum) capillato diffusum consule, i.e. very old wine, Juv 5, 30.—Prov.: “fronte capillată, post est occasio calva,” Cato, Dist. 2, 26; cf. Phaedr. 5, 8, 1 sqq.—Subst.: căpillāti , ōrum, m., young aristocrats, Mart. 3, 57, 31.—
B. Capillata vel capillaris arbor, a tree on which the Vestal virgins suspended their shorn hair, Paul. ex Fest. p. 57 Müll.; cf. Plin. 16, 44, 85, § 235.—
II. Transf., of plants, consisting of slender fibres: “radices,” Plin. 19, 6, 31, § 98: “folia,” id. 16, 24, 38, § 90.
