Crossword clues for barbel
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barb \Barb\ (b[aum]rb), n. [F. barbe, fr. L. barba beard. See Beard, n.]
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Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
The barbel, so called by reason of his barbs, or wattles in his mouth.
--Walton. A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners. [Obs.]
pl. Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen. [Written also barbel and barble.]
The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else. ``Having two barbs or points.''
--Ascham.A bit for a horse. [Obs.]
--Spenser.(Zo["o]l.) One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane. See Feather.
(Zo["o]l.) A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; -- also improperly called whiting.
(Bot.) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A freshwater fish of the genus ''Barbus''. 2 (context biology English) Whisker-like sensory organs, located around the mouth of certain fish, including catfish, carp, goatfish, sturgeon, and some types of shark. 3 A barb or pap under the tongues of horses and cattle.
WordNet
n. slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish [syn: feeler]
Wikipedia
Barbels are group of small carp-like freshwater fish, almost all of the genus Barbus. They are usually found in gravel and rocky-bottomed slow-flowing waters with high dissolved oxygen content. A typical adult barbel will range from 25 to 100 cm in length and weigh anywhere between 200 g and 10 kg, although weights of 200 g are more common. Babies weigh 100–150 g.
Barbel roe is poisonous and causes vomiting and diarrhoea in some people.
The name barbel derived from the Latin barba, meaning beard, a reference to the two pairs of barbs—a longer pair pointing forwards and slightly down positioned—on the side of the mouth.
Fish described as barbels by English-speaking people may not be known as barbels in their native country, although the root of the word may be similar. For instance, the Mediterranean barbel, Barbus meridionalis is known as barbeau méridional or barbeau truité in France, but also as drogan, durgan, tourgan, turquan and truitat.
A barbel on a fish is a slender, whiskerlike sensory organ near the mouth. Fish that have barbels include the catfish, the carp, the goatfish, hagfish, sturgeon, the zebrafish (Danio rerio) and some species of shark. Barbels house the taste buds of such fish and are used to search for food in murky water.
Barbels are often erroneously referred to as barbs, which are found in bird feathers for flight.
Barbels may be located in a variety of locations on the head of a fish. "Maxillary barbels" refers to barbels on either side of the mouth. Barbels may also be nasal, extending from the nostrils. Also, barbels are often mandibular or mental, being located on the chin.
Barbel may refer to:
- Barbel (anatomy), a whisker-like organ near the mouth found in some fish (notably catfish, loaches and cyprinids) and turtles.
- Barbel (fish), a common name for certain species of fish.
- USS Barbel (SS-316), a US Navy submarine launched in 1943.
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USS Barbel (SS-580), a US Navy submarine launched in 1958.
- The Barbel class of submarines of which SS-580 was the lead ship.
Usage examples of "barbel".
Four men were with Case Barbel, all members of the crew that had raided the camp near the Aureole Mine and had later invaded the home of Frederick Zern.
The racks on which they had dried their catches of tilapia bream and barbeled catfish still stood, but their huts had been burned to the ground.
Her head, although still covered with blonde hair, had transformed into that of a scaleless fish, complete with whiskerlike barbels.
The bones are of a very glutinous nature, and can be easily masticated, while the taste of a sterlet is something between that of a barbel and a perch, the muddy flavour of the former predominating.
The darkness above was no cloak at all to the chemical-sensitive barbels around his mouth.
I have had the charge of the child till now, and I can tell you, Barbel, I am not going to give up the chance which has just fallen to me of getting a good place, for her sake.
Now Barbel had for long past been most anxious to ascertain particulars about Alm-Uncle, as she could not understand why he seemed to feel such hatred towards his fellow-creatures, and insisted on living all alone, or why people spoke about him half in whispers, as if afraid to say anything against him, and yet unwilling to take his Part.
Moreover, Barbel was in ignorance as to why all the people in Dorfli called him Alm-Uncle, for he could not possibly be uncle to everybody living there.
Dete shook hands with her friend and remained standing while Barbel went towards a small, dark brown hut, which stood a few steps away from the path in a hollow that afforded it some protection from the mountain wind.
In what became known as the Three Mountains Task, Piaget and Barbel Inhelder exposed children from four to twelve years old to a play set that contained three clay mountains, each of a different color, and a toy doll.
By a leather-mouthed fish, I mean such as have their teeth in their throat, as the Chub or Cheven: and so the Barbel, the Gudgeon, and Carp, and divers others have.
A gurt fish with a barbel under its chin, that loved almost any bait you could name, but squid and caplin most.
Shem's bodily getup, it seems, included an adze of a skull, an eight of a larkseye, the whoel of a nose, one numb arm up a sleeve, fortytwo hairs off his uncrown, eighteen to his mock lip, a trio of barbels from his megageg chin (sowman's son), the wrong shoulder higher than the right, all ears, an artificial tongue with a natural curl, not a foot to stand on, a handful of thumbs, a blind stomach, a deaf heart, a loose liver, two fifths of two buttocks, one gleetsteen avoirdupoider for him, a manroot of all evil, a salmonkelt's thinskin, eelsblood in his-cold toes, a bladder tristended, so much so that young Master Shemmy on his very first debouch at the very dawn of protohistory seeing himself such and such, when playing with thistlewords in their garden nursery, Griefotrofio, at Phig Streat III Shuvlin, Old Hoeland, (would we go back there now for sounds, pillings and sense?