pilulous

English

Etymology

From Latin pilula (“a pill”) +‎ -ous.

Adjective

pilulous (comparative more pilulous, superlative most pilulous)

1. Resembling a pill or pilule.
   • 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter II, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 29:

     Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship?