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Barbellate

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Adjective

1. barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny

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

Example Sentences:
'a horse with a short bristly mane'
'bristly shrubs'
'burred fruits'
'setaceous whiskers'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Barbellate

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adjective

1.

(of plants or plant organs) covered with barbs, hooks, or bristles

2.

(of animals) possessing bristles or barbels

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Barbellate

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adjective

Botany

covered with short, hooked bristles or hairs

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Barbellate

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adj.

Botany Finely or minutely barbed: barbellate stems.

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