barbet

Meaning of barbet

noun

a large-headed, brightly coloured fruit-eating bird that has a stout bill with tufts of bristles at the base. Barbets are found on all continents, especially in the tropics.

late 16th century (denoting a poodle): from French, from barbe ‘beard’ (see barb1). The current sense dates from the early 19th century.

Information about barbet

Hyphenation of barbet

bar-bet

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • barbet is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Anagrams of barbet

rabbet, Tabber, tabber

Words that rhyme with barbet

tarbet, Guerbet, overbet, sherbet, Corbet, corbet, gorbet, sorbet, Courbet, surbet

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