Usually means: Having barbs; covered with barbs.
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  1. barbellate: Merriam-Webster
  2. barbellate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. barbellate: Collins English Dictionary
  4. barbellate: Vocabulary.com
  5. barbellate: Wordnik
  6. barbellate: Wiktionary
  7. barbellate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. barbellate: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Barbellate, barbellate: Dictionary.com
  10. Barbellate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. barbellate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. barbellate: Rhymezone
  13. Barbellate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. barbellate: FreeDictionary.org
  15. barbellate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. barbellate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. barbellate: Encyclopedia

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  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (barbellate)

▸ adjective:  (botany) Having a covering of fine barbs, quills, spines or thorns

Similar:
burry, bristled, barbed, briary, briery, bristly, spiny, thorny, prickly, armed, more...

Opposite:
smooth, unbarbed, barbless

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Similar:
burry, bristled, barbed, briary, briery, bristly, spiny, thorny, prickly, armed, more...

Opposite:
smooth, unbarbed, barbless



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