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Definition of Barbicels
1. barbicel [n] - See also: barbicel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barbicels
Literary usage of Barbicels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bird: Its Form and Function by William Beebe (1906)
"At the lower end of our pigeon's feather, barbicels are ... Two interlocked barbs
from the vane of a Condor's wing-feather, showing barbules and barbicels. ..."
2. The Microscope: An Illustrated Monthly Designed to Popularize the Subject of (1891)
"The barbicels of the posterior series of barbs seldom bear hook- lets, but cilia
only. This description of a feather is a sort of base-line from which to ..."
3. Animal Memoirs by Samuel Lockwood (1888)
"These together are called barbicels, and the two kinds are distinguished as cilia,
or little hairs, and hamuli, or little hooks. ..."
4. Readings in Natural History by Samuel Lockwood (1888)
"These together are called barbicels, and the two kinds are distinguished as cilia,
or little hairs, and hamuli, or little hooks. ..."
5. Memoirs of Hugh Edwin Strickland by Hugh Edwin Strickland, William Jardine (1858)
"These barbules further exhibit those ultimate fringes to which the name barbicels
has been given. In ordinary feathers, the barbules on the distal side of ..."
6. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1870)
"... and the anterior rows of these usually possess barbicels and booklets. In the
downy structure there is a general laxness of the parts, the quills being ..."
7. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"An after-shaft never, and a down-feather rarely, possesses barbicels; while in
some cases by the absence of these and part of the barbules a " disconnected ..."
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