'Barbule' definitions:
- 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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- 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
