BARBULE meaning: Tiny branches on bird feathers

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barbule: Merriam-Webster
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barbule: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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barbule: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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Barbule: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
barbule: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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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.

Similar:

barb, beard, barbut, beardlet, barbud, beard hair, bard, hose barb, barrulet, barbering, more...

Opposite:

rachis, shaft, quill

Types:

pectinate, lanceolate, filiform, pinnate, vane, more...

Adjectives:

distal, proximal, single, entire, small, long, anterior, short, fleshy

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