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Barbel   Listen
noun
Barbel  n.  
1.
(Zool.) A slender tactile organ on the lips of certain fishes.
2.
(Zool.) A large fresh-water fish (Barbus vulgaris) found in many European rivers. Its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels.
3.
pl. Barbs or paps under the tongues of horses and cattle. See 1st Barb, 3.





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"Barbel" Quotes from Famous Books



... this fish is named Barbatus, which both Hakluyt and Harris have translated Turbot, a fish never found in rivers. It was more probably a Barbel, in Latin called Barbus; or it might be of the Sturgeon tribe, which likewise has beard-like appendages, and is found in ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1 • Robert Kerr


Words linked to "Barbel" :   tentacle, feeler


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