barbellate

Adjective

bar=bel=late

WORDNET DICTIONARY

barbellate(s = adj.all) barbed, 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.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"

Derived form noun barbel₁

barbellate, a. [See 1st Barb.].

Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point. Gray. [1913 Webster]

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