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sh ( Barbus vulgaris) found in many European rivers. Its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels.

Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point. Gray.

Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.

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.

See Barbel.

A large species of barbel (Barbus bynni), found in the Nile, and much esteemed for food.

A fresh-water fish of the genus Lota, having on the nose two very small barbels, and a larger one on the chin. [Written also burbolt.]

One of the Cyprinidae, or Carp family, as the goldfish, barbel, etc.

To fish with a long line and rod; as, to drabble for barbels.

r of marsipobranchs, including the Myxine or hagfish and the genus Bdellostoma. They have barbels around the mouth, one tooth on the plate, and a communication between tionnasal aperture and the throat. See Hagfish. [Written also Hyperotreti.]

An order of fishes having barbels on the jaws. It includes the catfishes, or siluroids. See Siluroid.

hich, by coiling and uncoiling through changes in moisture, propels the sharp-pointed and barbellate grain into the wool and flesh of sheep. It is found from Illinois westward. See Illustration in Appendix. -- Porcupine wood (Bot.), the hard outer wood of the cocoa palm; -- so called because, when cut horizontally, th…

genera Onos and Rhinonemus (formerly Motella), allied to the cod. They have three or four barbels.

(a) A lant, or launce. (b) A slender Pacific Ocean fish of the genus Gonorhynchus, having barbels about the mouth. -- Sand flag, sandstone which splits up into flagstones. -- Sand flea. (Zoöl.) (a) Any species of flea which inhabits, or breeds in, sandy places, especially the common dog flea. (b) the chigoe. (c) Any…

A mature female fish. The barbel, for the preservation or their seed, both the spawner and the milter, cover their spawn with sand. Walton.

Barbel of a fish.