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barb
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 (bärb)
KEY
NOUN:
- A sharp point projecting in reverse direction to the main point of a weapon or tool, as on an arrow or fishhook.
- A cutting remark.
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Zoology
One of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather.
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Botany
A short, sharply hooked bristle or hairlike projection.
- See barbel
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- Any of various Old World freshwater fishes of the genus Barbus or Puntius and related genera.
- A linen covering for a woman's head, throat, and chin worn in medieval times.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
barbed
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barb·ing
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barbs
- To provide or furnish with a barb.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English barbe, from Old French, beard, from Latin barba; see bhardh- - in Indo-European roots
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