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Definition of Barbules
1. barbule [n] - See also: barbule
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barbules
Literary usage of Barbules
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Inheritance in Poultry by Charles Benedict Davenport (1906)
"Each barb bears, proximally, two rows of short, flat, hook-shaped barbules alike
on the two sides. Beyond, there are a few short barbules that taper to a ..."
2. The Psychology of Drawing: With Special Reference to Laboratory Teaching by Fred Carleton Ayer (1916)
"barbules attached to one side of barb I " 7. barbules attached to both sides of
barb % " 8. barbules shown parallel ^ " 9. barbules at proper slant K ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Further, each barb supports a double series of smaller outgrowths known as the
radii, or " barbules "; so that each barb may be likened to a feather in ..."
4. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"... legs very strong; bind toe wanting or rudimentary ; barbs of feathers with no
barbules, so that they remain unconnected with each other. Cursu ma. ..."
5. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"A, small portion of feather with pieces of two barbs, each having to the left
three distal barbules, and to the right a number of proximal barbules, ..."
6. Memoirs of Hugh Edwin Strickland by Hugh Edwin Strickland, William Jardine (1858)
"I allude to the double row of barbules (" Strahlen " of German authors) which
... These barbules further exhibit those ultimate fringes to which the name ..."
7. Colour in Nature: A Study in Biology by Marion Isabel Newbigin (1898)
"We have already described the general structure of barbules and noticed that each
is divided into two regions—a proximal flattened region which may be ..."
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