BARBEL

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish

Synonyms:

barbel; feeler

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("barbel" is a kind of...):

tentacle (any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion)

Derivation:

barbellate (having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.)

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