1. Word finder
  2. Word definitions
  3. barbellate

Find the word definition

What is "barbellate"

The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barbellate

Barbellate \Bar"bel*late\ (b[aum]r"b[e^]l*l[asl]t), a. [See 1st Barb.] (Bot.) Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point.
--Gray.

Wiktionary
barbellate

a. (context botany English) Having a covering of fine barbs, quills, spines or thorns

WordNet
barbellate

adj. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" [syn: barbed, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny]

Usage examples of "barbellate".

Like a barbellate catfish in the muddy waters of the Nile, Penrod Ballantyne allowed himself to be absorbed into the teeming byways, alleys and hovels of Omdurman.

We drew from the river shining blue perch heavier than the fattest man in our company, and there were huge catfish, with barbellate whiskers as long as my arm, that were too strong and weighty to be captured in the nets.