barbel

Meaning of barbel

noun
  1. a fleshy filament growing from the mouth or snout of a fish.
  2. a large European freshwater fish of the carp family, which has barbels hanging from the mouth.
  3. 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.
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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:

feeler

Anagrams of barbel

barble, labber, rabble

Words that rhyme with barbel

garbel, Phenerbel, Werbel, Korbel, corbel, dorbel

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