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BARBEL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does barbel mean?
• BARBEL (noun)
The noun BARBEL has 1 sense:
1. slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish
Familiarity information: BARBEL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
barbel; feeler
Hypernyms ("barbel" is a kind of...):
tentacle (any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion)
Derivation:
barbellate (having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.)
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