ἴουλος

Etymology
According to Beekes, from, the same root of and. However according to targum exegetes it could be borrowed from from the  lizard name. This form and similar meanings can be reconstructed on the basis of the animal name’s 🇨🇬 measure, alternating with , since regularly comes out  in 🇨🇬-🇨🇬 (like  from ). In Jewish Aramaic it also meant a kind of blood-sucking animal, and even closer to the original meaning of a worral would be the Greek senses of certain earth-graving insects. “The first growth of the whiskers and beard” would then be transferred from the image of the undersides of the throats of certain lizards; corn-sheaves afford a similar picture. From any of these meanings the sense of a catkin can be transferred.

Noun

 * 1) down, the first growth of the whiskers and beard
 * 2) corn sheaf
 * 3)  catkin; tendril
 * 4) creature like the centipede, perhaps the woodlouse or the earthworm