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Definition of Barbellate
1. Adjective. Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.. "Setaceous whiskers"
Similar to: Armed
Derivative terms: Barbel, Briar, Bristle, Bristliness, Burr, Prickle, Prickliness, Seta, Spininess, Thorn, Thorniness
Definition of Barbellate
1. a. Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point.
Definition of Barbellate
1. Adjective. (botany) Having a covering of fine barbs, quills, spines or thorns ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Barbellate
1. Covered, usually laterally, with fine, short points or barbs. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barbellate
Literary usage of Barbellate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1898)
"... slightly compressed, ciliolate-barbellate. ... somewhat flattened,
ciliolate-barbellate, the other ones the shorter. ..."
2. Hand-book of Indian Flora: Being a Guide to All the Flowering Plants by Herber Drury (1866)
"... with prominent ribs : pappus 1-series, bristles thick, rigid, densely barbellate.
... barbellate ..."
3. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. by George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller (1866)
"Pappus-bristles few, very fine, shortly barbellate. W. Australia. ... Pappus of
several capillary bristles, scabrous, shortly barbellate or almost plumose ..."
4. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1851)
"Among the species with a barbellate and strictly uniserial pappus which have been
... that there is only the difference between a barbellate and a plumose ..."
5. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Pappus a single series of rough or barbellate, rigid, slender bristles. [Derivation
uncertain, perhaps from Ptarmica.] occur in the western parts of North ..."
6. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"fls. large" for the size of the head: pappus grayish, the bristles minutely
barbellate, about % in. long. Fla. \VW ROWLEE. ..."
7. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1891)
"culms slender, 2 to 3 dm. high, barbellate at the node»: leaves narrow, rigid,
5 to 10 cm. long, thinly pubescent: spikes 3 to 4 cm. long, rather loosely ..."
8. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"Pappus of one or more series of barbellate or plumose bristles. ... Pappus of
rather rigid minutely barbellate bristles, nearly in a single series. ..."
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