Tonsilis, & hoc tonsile, pen. cor. Plinius. That may be shorne, clipped, rounded, lopped, shred, or cropped.Tonsile buxetum. Mart. Tonsilis facilitas. Plin. Easinesse to bee lopped.Tonsilis in opere topiario. Plin.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
tonsĭlis, e, adj. [tondeo], that may be shorn, cut, or clipped.I.Lit.: villus, Plin. 8, 50, 76, 203: facilitas piceae, id. 16, 10, 18, 40. — II.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.