Usually means: Tiny branches on bird feathers.
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  1. barbule: Merriam-Webster
  2. barbule: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. barbule: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. barbule: Collins English Dictionary
  5. barbule: Wordnik
  6. barbule: Wiktionary
  7. barbule: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. barbule: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. barbule: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. barbule: Dictionary.com
  11. Barbule: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Barbule: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. barbule: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Barbule: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. barbule: FreeDictionary.org
  16. barbule: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. barbule: Medical dictionary

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  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (barbule)

noun:  (botany) A small barb or beard.
noun:  (ornithology) Any of the secondary barbs that form a fringe of small projections on a feather.

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