BARB

Barb

A barb is one of various ray-finned fish species in a non-phylogenetic group, with members in the family Cyprinidae, and especially the genera Barbus and Puntius, but many others also. They were formerly united with the barbels in the subfamily Barbinae, but that group is paraphyletic with the Cyprininae. If the Labeoninae are recognized as distinct, many small African "barbs" would probably, however, warrant recognition as a new subfamily.

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barb

Noun

  1. The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
  2. A hurtful or disparaging remark.
  3. A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
  4. Armor for a horse, corrupted from bard.
  5. One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane.
  6. Several species of freshwater fish of the cyprinid family.
  7. A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; also improperly called whiting.
  8. A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
  9. A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
  10. A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.
  11. Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen. [Written also barbel and barble.]
  12. A bit for a horse.
  13. A plastic fastener, shaped roughly like a capital I (with serifs), used to attach socks etc. to their packaging.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
  2. A blackish or dun variety of pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.

Verb

  1. To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.
    But rattling storm of arrows barbed with fire. — .
  2. To cover a horse in armor, corrupted from bard.
  3. To shave or dress the beard of.
  4. To clip; to mow.


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