barbels

Meaning of barbels

plural 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 barbels

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of barbels is: barbel.
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Hyphenation of barbels

bar-bels

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • barbels is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Anagrams of barbels

rabbles, slabber

Words that rhyme with barbels

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