noun. A small barb or pointed projection, especially one of the small projections fringing the edges of the barbs of feathers.

noun. In botany, the inner row of teeth in the peristome of certain mosses.

noun. A small barb, as of a plant; a little beard. Also barbula.

noun. In ornithology, one of a series of pointed, barb-like processes fringing the barbs of a feather.

noun. The part of a helmet which protects the cheeks and chin.

noun. A very minute barb or beard.

noun. One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather.

noun. Any of the secondary barbs that form a fringe of small projections on a feather.

"Through a common magnifying glass each tiny barbule was seen to be ringed with gray and silvery white, so finely that the rings could hardly be seen."

antenna  barb  barbel  barrel  cat whisker  

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