BARBEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does barbel mean? 

• BARBEL (noun)
  The noun BARBEL has 1 sense:

1. slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish

  Familiarity information: BARBEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARBEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

barbel; feeler

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.)