barbel
Meaning of barbel
noun
- a fleshy filament growing from the mouth or snout of a fish.
- a large European freshwater fish of the carp family, which has barbels hanging from the mouth.
- an African marine or freshwater fish with barbels round the mouth.
late Middle English (in barbel (sense 2)): via Old French from late Latin barbellus, diminutive of barbus ‘barbel’, from barba ‘beard’.
Information about barbel
- It is a name.
- The plural form of barbel is: barbels.
- Languages in which barbel is used:
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Hyphenation of barbel
bar-bel
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- barbel is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
barbel synonyms
Meaning feeler:
Anagrams of barbel
Words that rhyme with barbel
garbel, Phenerbel, Werbel, Korbel, corbel, dorbel
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