Barbule

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Barbule \Bar"bule\, n. [L. barbula, fr. barba beard.]
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     1. A very minute barb or beard. --Booth.
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     2. (Zool.) One of the processes along the edges of the barbs


        of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See
        {Feather}.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "barbule":
     antenna, barb, barbel, barrel, cat whisker, cilium, feeler,
     filament, filamentule, palp, palpus, quill, shaft, tactile cell,
     tactile corpuscle, tactile hair, tactile organ, tactile process,
     tactor, vibrissa