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Definition of Barbule
1. n. A very minute barb or beard.
Definition of Barbule
1. Noun. Any of the secondary barbs that form a fringe of small projections on a feather. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Barbule
1. a small barb [n -S]
Medical Definition of Barbule
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1. A very minute barb or beard.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Barbule
Literary usage of Barbule
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sea and the Rod by Charles Thomas Paske, Frederick George Aflalo (1892)
"... Dublin Haddock—Description of the Fish : a Plausible Legend —Economic
Importance—Large Specimens—Baits—Probable Function of the barbule in Fish—Tricks ..."
2. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1855)
"The base of the maxillary barbule is exterior and anterior to the back nostrils.
... When laid backwards, the maxillary barbule reaches beyond the posterior ..."
3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1855)
"The base of the maxillary barbule is exterior and anterior to the back nostrils.
... When laid backwards, the maxillary barbule reaches beyond the posterior ..."
4. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"II, booklet of distal barbule interlocking with flange of proximal barbule.
C', two adjacent proximal barbules. Z>, a distal barbule (From Headley, ..."
5. The Intellectual Observer (1867)
"Under the microscope, in the ordinary /eather, the barbule, instead of ...
This base of the barbule is larger and stronger according to the period, ..."
6. Readings in Natural History by Samuel Lockwood (1888)
"And an important office has each barbule, for lapping each upon the other, ...
With this we see at the extreme edge of the web of a barbule what looks like ..."
7. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1882)
"Part of a barbule of a red non-metallic feather of ... One barbule (radius) of
a metallic (coppery-red to bluish) feather of a ..."
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